Word: lemass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Gossage was lolling in a manor house south of Dublin, writing a book on advertising, paying social calls on Prime Minister Sean Lemass, and casting about for new clients for the W. & G. kooky jar. "We never solicit business," straight-faces Joe Weiner from San Francisco, "we wait for business." But he was not laying odds that another large chunk of the Green would not come under the spell of Adopted Leprechaun Gossage...
...safely removed from active politics. The independent Irish Times, which has often bitterly attacked Dev and his "break all links with Britain" policy, said that Dev was "the fitting choice" for President, and there were few in Ireland to disagree. His possible successor as Taoiseach: Deputy Prime Minister Sean Lemass, able Minister for Industry and Commerce. A golf-playing, hard-driving executive of French ancestry, Lemass was the youngest man in the garrison, a mere spalpeen, at the Dublin General Post Office during the 1916 Rising. The story goes that a British officer, after the surrender, kicked...