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Pride of the Irish Free State is the $35,000,000 River Shannon canal and hydroelectric power plant which the Berlin firm of Siemens-Schuckert is rapidly completing for the Government. Part of the plant was in operation last week when pedantic German engineers hurried to the office of General Manager T. A. McLaughlin to complain about the Irish wording of some warning signs which workmen were hanging on the power lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Warning | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...world, playing golf, meeting people. He found leisure boring and the Fox company thought this play, which it had on file, would give him just what he wanted to do. He wears corduroy breeches, a mackinaw, and a woodsman's boots and cap. He hums "The Rr-hiver Shannon" and when, with his broad brogue, he asks "What's the matter with Al Smith?" the audiences in Democrat towns start clapping. The picture is a comedy which critics passed off with an indulgent phrase or two when it was given as a play on Broadway last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 18, 1931 | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

Truex in a Parisian notions store, prevail upon him to double for the Corsican. Mr. Truex's first job is to tell a comely actress (Peggy Shannon) that he no longer loves her. But although she sees through the impersonation, she becomes enamored of the substitute, makes him spend the night. Josephine (Frieda Inescort) also falls under his spell. When Mr. Truex finally returns to the mercantile business, he is assured of the patronage of the whole court and Comedie Franchise. Says he: "If my strength holds out we'll have the biggest store in Paris." Picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 23, 1931 | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

FRESHMAN WORCESTER Levin, r.f. l.f., Love Ferriter, l.f. r.f., Clark Huntington. c. c., Conothan Nevin, r.g. l.g., Shannon Cary, l.g. r.g., Goodman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1934 WILL PLAY WORCESTER | 2/18/1931 | See Source »

...Columbus, Ohio, Ambrose Moss, 31, brawny Negro, was committed last week for the third time to the State Hospital for the Insane. With a table he smashed the skulls of Sylvester Shannon, 27, and Frank T. Wilson, 52, both inmates. Attendants broke his neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: May 19, 1930 | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

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