Word: shannon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...promise did not actually come true because Mr. McAndrew, though suspended, has yet to be tried. And none is more eager for his trial than himself. He will be defended by Lawyer Angus Roy Shannon, author of the Illinois law under which the Chicago school system operates. His defense will set forth that the intention of the law was to make the superintendent of Chicago's schools, not a "hired man" of Chicago's school board, but an executive which the board is required to appoint, drawing an independent authority from the same source that created the school...
...other hand, however, a great deal is being done. The Shannon electricity scheme is proceeding at enormous expense. When completed the Free State will have a large, cheap source of power and there will then, so say observers, be no reason why the industrialists should not meet competition scientifically by modernizing their machinery, much needed in the cotton, poplin and woolen industries. Moves are afoot to exploit scientifically coal and other minerals, and recently a Belgian syndicate received a $5.000,000 subsidy to grow beets for the sugar industry...
...Irish bulls Mr. Smiddy spokes not facetiously but in deadly earnest. He spoke moreover of the River Shannon, not with a gushing Irish tear but as a businessman interested in hydro-electric power. "The Shannon," said Minister Smiddy, briskly, "is the largest river in Ireland and larger than any in England. . . . An hydroelectric installation is being effected in two stages. With completion of the first stage there will be available in 15 months 90,000,000 horsepower at a cost of $26,000,000, thus ultimately bringing light and cheer into every Free State village of a population above...
...especially well fitted to deliver the address, having been chief of the Chaplin Service with the A. E. F. in France in the years 1918 and 1919. A special invitation to attend these services is extended to the Harvard men who participated in the Civil War, to the Shannon Post of the American Legion, to the Leslie H. Hunting Camp of the United Spanish War Veterans, and to the local posts of the Grand Army of the Republic...
Connell characters, as perfect and unreal as fashion advertisements, achieve life by the sheer velocity of their improbable actions. The Prince reappears in this novel precisely that way, deus ex machina. He modestly accepts a hand-knitted sweater from Hero Gerald Shannon, thereby enabling the latter to become a Self-Made Man and town-builder back in Ireland, as broad Kevin Shannon, his father, had been in the U. S. How might that be? By the same token that Gerald Shannon chances to hang his shoes on the chandelier and trousers in the tub, and to take a circus troupe...