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...Detroit, a young, short, slender, redhaired Irishman prepared last week to take over the Mayor's office. He had won the extraordinary election required by the recall of Mayor Charles Bowles (TIME, Aug. 4). The redhaired Irishman was a "dark horse" who entered the race backed by the Hearst-owned Detroit Times, opposed by the Detroit-owned News and Free Press. He was Frank Murphy, 37, recently resigned Judge of the Recorder's Court, onetime Assistant U. S. District Attorney, voluble orator. His friends called him "the Al Smith of Detroit." He polled 106,203 votes. Recalled Mayor...
Whether or not Composer Grimm knew it, Pundit Shaw is not without musical experience. He is at home with no instrument more musical than a typewriter, can barely carry a tune, but he once earned his living writing about music for his fellow-Irishman, the late famed Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor. Explains Shaw: "He made me musical critic quite frankly and explicitly ... to prevent my writing about anything else than music. My other writings were ruining his paper [The Star...
...Mace it is doubtful whether the House can sit with authority, and a story is recalled of how the late T. P. O'Connor revealed a plot among Irishmen to seize the Mace and throw it into the Thames. Yet, bitter as the Irish passions were then, no Irishman ever touched the Mace...
...Foreign Commerce are so interesting that their study does not seem to be drudgery. One other small matter which I hope does not come to the attention of the member of my family involved, is that you speak of my chauffeur as a Negro. In fact, he is an Irishman of the Irish&* and, having been with me for some 25 years, is a faithful friend as well as a chauffeur...
Such exciting letters as only hopping-mad, cussing-mad Irishmen can write poured in by the mailbagful last week upon Dublin's brindle-bearded George William Russell, poet, painter, philosopher and sprightly sage, famed as "AE." As greatly beloved as any living Irishman, Poet Russell had roused the furies by a pungent critique* of Ireland's secret and romantic brotherhoods as they exist today. A tough old patriot himself, he finds the brotherhoods flabby-muscled, fatheaded, sunk like the Ku Klux Klan in babbittry, bigotry. Wrote he: "The secret societies of a generation ago had for object...