Word: irishmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most U. S. song hits are made in the U. S. But last week two imported tunes were leading the U. S. field: 1) the Czech Beer Barrel Polka (550,000 copies sold to date); 2) South of the Border, a song about Mexico by two London Irishmen (Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr) who have never been there (over...
...Ward 6 the voters called upon two fighting Irishmen, City Councilor Michael A. Sullivan and William (Call me 'BIH') Flanagan to continue their scrapping for the council seat until the final election on Tuesday, November...
...Passed a bill (twitting the State Department) to relieve aliens (such as Irishmen) from swearing allegiance to their former rulers (such as George VI) upon applying for U. S. citizenship...
...Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had promised that recently inaugurated conscription measures would be applied in Northern Ireland only in time of national emergency, Mr. de Valera demanded that it be forsworn completely. Even the imperialist London Times observed editorially that this sort of fight was just "the kind which Irishmen love" and urged that it be settled "before it gives serious trouble." Result was that last week Mr. Chamberlain backed down completely, announced that as a "recognition of Northern Ireland's patriotism" recruits for the British Army there would be limited to a volunteer reserve tank unit. Eire...
...Most Irishmen were jubilant at another of "Dev's" diplomatic victories and saw in it a trump to take the final trick in the Eire-Britain game-rule of Northern Ireland...