Word: patriotically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full wrath upon his head. When demands that the troops be withdrawn were ignored, C. I. O. lawyers marched into Federal Courts seeking injunctions. From the Mahoning Valley Citizens Committee the Governor received a message: "Your stand is commensurate with the acts of a true statesman and patriot." But in his own capital 700 C. I. O. delegates assembled to "pledge the forces of organized labor to drive Governor Davey from the political life of the State and the nation." Said the Governor: "I probably am committing political suicide...
...showing Parnell speaking in Parliament at the time of the trial arising from the Phoenix Park case. Best bit part: Brandon Tynan, Dublin-born actor, who got 27 curtain calls the night in 1902 when he appeared in New York in the title role of a play about Irish Patriot Robert Emmet, as J. F. X. O'Brien, oldest member of the Home Rule Party...
...Arthur St. Clair Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, composed of representative Indianapolis women who have protested against the President's Supreme Court ideas. I have seen your reply, regrettably fallacious and addressed to 'Dear General.' I would beg to inform you that the General, worthy patriot that he was, has been inaccessible to letter-writing since his death in 1818-one would suggest that both you and your secretary inform themselves both about history...
...times as much money as has been authorized for Washington's Jefferson Memorial is involved in another scheme to honor Patriot Jefferson at St. Louis. Though St. Louis, onetime capital of the great Louisiana Territory which President Jefferson bought from Napoleon in 1803, already has a Jefferson Memorial built for the Exposition of 1903,* real-estate interests put through a scheme to sell to the Government 37 blocks of river front property to become a national park. A taxpayers' injunction, obtained in September, has temporarily halted work...
...legend inspired by fact." The fact is the Irish rebellion of 1921. The legend, as presented by Writers John Balderston, William Meloney & Rose Franken, should certainly raise the eyebrows of students of recent Irish history. As the hero of the ''trouble," it presents a romantic young patriot named Dennis Riordan (Brian Aherne). It derives the Irish Free State's Constitution from a few words that pass between him and his English inamorata. Lady Helen Drummond (Merle Oberon...