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...Justice Holmes the decision was one which had to be overturned. Years later, when his days were running down, he told his promising secretary-protege, a handsome, huge-headed young Rhode Island Irishman named Thomas Gardiner Corcoran, to take up the task. Corcoran vowed, when he entered the Government in 1932, never to leave Washington until the case had been overruled. The years passed, the courts and Congress nibbled away-by last week little was left but to have a decision specifically overruling the 1918 case...
...things make the play hard to take seriously. One is the muddled writing of the author. The other is Barry Fitzgerald, whose role is comic relief. This Abbey Theatre veteran is one of the best and funniest actors alive. He appears here as a ramshackle, dyspeptic Irishman who can never get his coat, pants and shirt properly assembled, and who treats his wretched digestion as the most important topic in Ireland. His comedy not only relieves the play's solemnities-it annihilates them...
Sirs: The man who wrote of Churchill, Man of the Vear, in the Jan. 6 issue of TIME, is also a great master of words. As an Irishman, having long heard that England could fight to the last Irishman, I must now say that it can also fight to the last Englishman. A champion is never an accident-for long-said Frank Moran to me-one of the great bruisers of his era. I fully realize that there are those who say that Churchill represents a dying social system. If that is true, he still knows how to hold...
...anyone but the most ardent Jew-baiter, Lord Haw-Haw's Twilight Over England is interesting only for its preface. There William Joyce (whose name has been Germanized to Fröhlich) puts his imprimatur on the fact that his father was an Irishman, his mother a Briton, himself a New Yorker. Born in 1906, educated by Jesuits in Ireland, Joyce became a Fascist in 1923, joined up with comic-strip Dictator Mosley ten years later. Twice arrested for assaulting fellow citizens in political brawls, Joyce took it on the lam for Berlin just before war was declared...
George Gibson introduced the new member to the 32 members of T. U. C.'s General Council with wisecracks. Example: "This is Tom O'Brien, an Irishman masquerading as a Welshman." When the Queen's ear caught the accent of Miner Will Lawther she chimed in: "What part of the north do you come from...