Word: patriote
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Professor Edward Everett Hale, 69, author, great-great-nephew of Patriot Nathan Hale; of a heart attack; in Schenectadv...
Control of V. S. rested last week with famed German Industrialist Dr. Friedrich Flick. Recently he has virtually mortgaged the control to certain Dutch banks. Last week Patriot Flick sold his remaining interest to the Fatherland for "much less" than the French have been offering, received a mere 100 million marks ($23,820,000). The Dutch end of the deal was quietly arranged. For good or evil, Chancellor von Papen must go down in history as the man who while absent in Switzerland brought under German Government control last week more than two-fifths of the Fatherland's production...
...head of the Chemical Foundation, are not prone to think of Irish-blooded Francis Patrick Garvan, brother-in-law of the late Tycoon Nicholas Frederic Brady, as a particularly apt exponent of the spirit of Fair Play. But affable "Pat" Garvan is a sportsman as well as a patriot. Last week he made two moves toward an end which he thinks important: transfusing the spirit of Fair Play from U. S. sport to U. S. business...
Author Francis Stuart, 29, is the very model of modern Irish patriot-litterateur. His family, Ulster Unionists, schooled him at England's rugged Rugby. He became a Roman Catholic in 1920, joined the Irish Republican Army, was taken prisoner by Free State troops during the Dublin street-fighting of 1922, interned for 15 months. He married a niece of Maud Gonne MacBride whose soldier-husband, a Boer War gallant, was executed in Dublin after the 1916 rebellion and whose son Sean is now active in Irish Republican affairs. Author Stuart lives at Glendalough (Dublin suburb). Novelist Liam...
Prisoner Gilmore had remained in bed, the Minister of Justice was shocked to learn, ever since he was sent to jail three months ago. So much staying in bed had made him pale. But Patriot Gilmore absolutely refused to get out of bed and put on his prison uniform. There it lay across his chair...