Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white collar" crowds. But this crew inside the hall was different. They had in effect repudiated John L. Lewis, their national president. They were angry and suspicious. "To hell with 'em!" was their attitude toward the mine operators. In their midst sat their real strike leader, a magnetic Irishman named Martin Ryan. Straight at him Mr. McGrady directed his harangue, brandished the magic name of Franklin D. Roosevelt: "I'm here acting for the President of the United States and asking you to go back to work. You want to see the truce? Well, here...
Each year at the Dublin Horse show, The Irish Independent exhibits some outlandish animal or object, offers a prize to the one who can guess its name. When this year's show opened last week the Independent was displaying, in a shallow biscuit tin the last thing an Irishman might expect to see in Dublin-canned rattlesnake...
...indictment by a Cook County grand jury charging them one & all with being trade racketeers. Behind the indictment lay Chicago's years of industrial bombings, murders and terrorism, and twelve weeks of secret investigation by the grand jury before whom appeared 588 frightened witnesses. A strapping, six-foot Irishman elected State's Attorney on an anti-racket platform and a hard-hitting little criminal lawyer named Raber were the spearheads of the attack. Ahead lay the city's first real chance to get convictions and break a spell which holds a bil lion dollars worth of business...
...Middle Flight TRY THE SKY-Francis Stuart-Macmillan ($2). Irishman Francis Stuart may never set the Liffey afire but it will not be for lack of trying. Author Compton Mackenzie (Sinister Street et al.), who writes a reverently admiring introduction to Try the Sky, thinks Stuart can do it. Says he: "I am proud to think that my name may be associated, be it in ever so humble a way, with a work of the most profound spiritual importance to the modern world. ... I suggest that Francis Stuart has a message for the modern world of infinitely greater importance than...
Students in the summer school who have had little chance to see Shaw will enjoy this selection in which the Irishman arrays his wit against war and heroics, and points out that gold braid does not change human nature. When Captain Bluntschil climbs into the heroine's boudoir he does so over the hood of the truck which at night is effectively disguised...