Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German's or Irishman's son whose parents quarrel, who has not misbehaved in school and who belongs to a gang had better go to a reformatory...
...language. The announcement was made at a meeting of the Irish Charitable Society when President, O'Connor rose and said, "He is a Harvard man who has given this fund to Harvard because he has the glory of the Irish race in his blood. . . . He is a splendid Irishman...
...corrupt U. S. cities Milwaukee in the early 19005 was one of the most corrupt. In 1916, its disgusted German-immigrant voters quit old-line parties and elected as mayor a tall, lanky, unkempt Irishman-a Socialist. So thorough a job of housecleaning did Daniel Webster Hoan do in Milwaukee that his townsmen re-elected him six times without a break. Under May or Hoan's 24-year administration, Milwaukee became one of the best-run cities in the U. S. Chief carping came from bankers, utility men, real-estate owners protesting that "Uncle Dan," bearing the Socialist label...
...Francis Murphy, first Irishman, first Catholic ever elected New Hampshire's Governor, this defeat seemed a stopper. At week's end, after his rumored purchase of New York's Yankees flickered out, he was a man without a public future...
...been arrested on the Irish coast only a few hours after landing from a German submarine. His trial was in the glorious tradition; before a British judge and jury he argued Ireland's case against England fully as eloquently as had young Robert Emmet, the heroic Protestant Irishman who had led an attack on Dublin Castle, 113 years before...