Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Progressive Party, which has as its leader, Robert Forke, M. P. for Brandon, Manitoba, and as its disciple that intrepid Irishman Robert A. Hoey, M. P., for Springfield, Manitoba, is essentially a farmers' party of the West. This party has recently lost faith in Protection, which is understandable enough; for, if the protective tariff were done away with, they would stand to gain by being enabled to buy farm implements, etc., cheaper and at the same time risk nothing, their great wheat markets being unaffected. For all they cared, industry could go by the board...
Loud Welcome. Few of the famed men and women who have sailed up the oily river to Manhattan's topless towers ever received such a welcome as was accorded last week to the Irishman whose toast is drunk daily in 10,000,000 cups of tea. There were whistles, cheers, salutes. Six hundred passengers lined the rails of the Leviathan. One Barren Collier, a Special Deputy Police** Commissioner, was present with a yacht to take Sir Thomas up the bay. The Police Band was present? to play Home Again and Hail to the Chief and The Gang's All Here...
...Westchester Biltmore Club, Rye, N. Y. Having caddied and coached the Champion to victory last Fall, Joe could not bear to miss her performance this year and had traveled to Providence "on his own" to be at her side. Well above the voting age, shrewd as any Irishman, Joe is a rare jewel among caddies...
Eamom de Valera, New-York-State born Irishman, recently released from prison (TIME. July 28), harangued a crowd at Ennis, where, about one year ago, he was arrested by Free State troops (TIME...
...discussion ensued lasting through lunch, coffee and cigars. On the committee was one man who tipped back his chair against the wall of the private dining room, chewed his cigar, but otherwise appeared to be in a trance. He was an Irishman, old, affluent, and warm and ripe with experience...