Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prize exhibit in the repertoire of the Abbey Players, The Plough and the Stars long ago achieved the rating of a contemporary classic. Its grimy and discursive picture of Dublin life, as background for the grim story of its principals, made it a contemptuous portrait, almost a definition of Ireland before the Free State. The current version of The Plough and the Stars-in which Director John Ford was assisted by Arthur Shields of the Abbey Theatre and in which five members of the Abbey Theatre make their first U. S. cinema appearance together-is considerably less than that. Nonetheless...
When Helen arrives in Ireland with her father (Henry Stephenson), an emissary of the British Government, Riordan's revolutionaries are skirmishing with English troops. She meets Riordan and they fall in love before she knows who he is. When she finds out, loyalty to her father prompts her to set a trap that almost catches him. Loyalty to Riordan then prompts her to go to him and explain what she has done. English soldiers surround his house. When he escapes, Riordan has to promise his supporters not to see her again. He keeps the promise until the night...
...hastily extorted, the outrage so committed would cast its shadow forward across many chapters of the future history of the British Empire!'' Mr. Baldwin is again with the King at the snuggery from 6:15 to 7:30. Says Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, in mortal terror lest the Irish Free State make whatever solution is reached an excuse for secession: "Trust Mr. Baldwin...
...Cordell Hull was also 6,000 miles from home. Actual No. 2 man thus became Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. Behind him came Secretary of War Woodring, followed by Attorney General Cummings. No. 5 man is normally the Postmaster General. With James Aloysius Farley looking up relatives in Ireland, his position fell to ailing Secretary of the Navy Swanson, with Secretary of the Interior Ickes bringing up the rear. Agriculture's Wallace, Commerce's Roper, Labor's Perkins were no nearer the Presidency than they had ever been. When the 49th Congress fixed the order of Cabinet...
...before, President de Valera and Minister Owsley had talked briefly with the man whose mail contracts will be the lifeblood of any transatlantic airline-U. S. Postmaster General James A. Farley, in Ireland to visit his family home. The Lindbergh party did not encounter...