Word: larkins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...retains his highest admiration for himself. However, he is not averse to discussing the contacts of his fellow Olympians with himself. In this collection he describes in a manner highly anecdotal some 32 persons varying from Charles S. Chaplin and Sarah Bernhardt to Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, James Larkin, Emma Goldman, Lord Curzon. Otto Kahn and Leon Trotzky he compares as "two great captains." His rule, he tells us, has been to take people he has "known intimately and like'd if not loved." Among his exceptions to this rule are Roosevelt, Wilson, Harding, whom he neither likes...
...Nomination Day it is expected that some 500 candidates for 153 seats will be announced. The main Parties: Government, headed by W. T. Cosgrave; Labor, headed by Thomas Johnson; Radical Labor, James Larkin; Republican, Eamon de Valera. Political opinion at Dublin thinks that the Government Party will obtain a small majority over the other parties...
...Larkin (recently deported from the U. S.), plus 100 followers, invaded Liberty Hall, Dublin, and ejected the officers of the Irish Transport Workers on the ground that they had been suspended. This is a move to regain his old ascendency over the Transport Workers. It was feared that he might start agitations against the Free State; thus his latest move only provokes the comment : " It might have been worse...
After an absence of eight years of adventure, agitation and jail in foreign parts, Jim Larkin, Irish Revolutionist recently deported from the United States, arrived in his native Dublin. He was greeted with cheers by many thousands of Irish workers and marched through the streets to make a speech at Liberty Hall, with two bands playing and red and green flags waving...
...sailed as a steerage passenger on the White Star liner Majestic, disillusioned but cheerful. At Ellis Island one of the attendants jokingly inquired for his baggage. "Everything I own is on my back," said Larkin. "I'm like the man in Whitman's poem: 'Free and light-hearted I take to the open road...