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...Ireland from which de Valera came to the U. S. in 1919 was not the same island from which Irishmen had fled to the U. S. in the times of Cromwell and William of Orange, not the same island whose people fled to the U. S. during the potato famines of a century ago. Meanwhile, it had had a cultural renaissance. Irishmen had begun again to take poetic pride in their land, with its purple mountains, its lakes and glens peopled with green-coated, leather-aproned leprechauns, the heather-crowned hills of Donegal, the rocky outlines of the Aran Islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Prime Minister of Freedom | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Died. Ralph Hitz, 48, Viennese immigrant to the U. S. who floor-scrubbed, dish-washed, potato-peeled, super-sold his way into the presidency of the $22,000,000 Hotel New Yorker and National Hotel Management Co., Inc. (seven hotels); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Best-known of U. S. hotelmen, Ralph Hitz overwhelmed his customers with services, operated under the motto: "Give 'em value and you get volume." His employes' version: "We contact the hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...plane turned out to be that rented by David Hyde, instructor in Physical Education, who, while trying for his pilot's license, was forced down with engine trouble into a potato patch on Deer Island in the harbor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUCTOR'S PLANE FORCED DOWN ON ISLAND IN HARBOR | 1/19/1940 | See Source »

...afterthought, later in the week, came a speech from waning Mouthpiece Goebbels. It was merely a reiteration of the do-or-die talk which all German bigwigs have handed out to keep citizens in a proper frenzy. But there was a new note of genuine desperation. "This is no potato war," said Herr Goebbels, "but will bring a decision on our future. . . . We will either relinquish our position as a united people and a big power or win. . . . Germany is fighting a totalitarian war, calling on both the front and the homeland, if not for the same sacrifices, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Our Faith! | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...chief interest is still in art of one sort or another," according to the Post. "She has nimble fingers and her latest hobby is making rag dolls out of scraps of materials; also dogs and more fantastic animals. . . . Hitler also favors Evi's special Thuringian potato dumplings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: More About Evi | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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