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Flying squads of British police immediately began a round-up of all known Irish extremists living in England. Homes of Irishmen in London and Manchester, the main centres of bombing activity, were searched. Some 20 Irishmen, all suspected of membership in the I. R. A., were arrested. One of them had in his possession a copy of the proclamation, another 40 sticks of gelignite. Six barrels of explosives were seized in a raid at Manchester...
Ireland, though he has no wish to live in it-"I am not one of those sentimental Irishmen who love leprechauns and hobs" -is the country Carroll will go on writing about. The U. S., where at present he is visiting, he would not live in either, but its theatre is the one in the world that excites him. Scotland, though dramatically a cipher, is the place to live -because "its people leave you alone." England, full of "those gentle barbarians so much more dangerous than bloody barbarians," he despises...
Remaking that Greater Boston has more Irish in it than Dublin and more Roman Catholics than Rome Norton commented on the temperamental dislike which the "vocal, aggressive, domineering" Irishmen have for the "Harvard Protestants...
...sheiks making faces and tooting horns, brought to a close last week the last of the Purge primaries, in New York's 16th or "Gashouse" Congressional district, Manhattan. It had been the perfect picture of a Tammany fight, with plenty of mud-slinging at the finish, between two Irishmen alike as two of Paddy's pigs in outlook except that one of them had been cursed by Franklin Roosevelt for breaking out of the New Deal pen and the other had promised to be good...
Victorious by 4-to-3 over the discredited incumbent. Warren L. Bishop, was boyish, clean-cut Robert F. ("Bob") Bradford, Republican reform candidate for district attorney of Middlesex County (TIME, Sept. 19). His Democratic counterpart, clean-cut, boyish Thomas H. ("Tom") Eliot, running against four Irishmen, narrowly won nomination for the House...