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...Minister of Canada) since 1922. He was thus the dean of European chiefs of states. Under his stern regime, tempered by the assassination of one of his ministers.† Ireland has greatly prospered, speedily progressed, now makes all the Ford tractors that are made, has just harnessed the River Shannon by a mighty hydroelectric network (TIME, Aug. 5). With no War debt, with a strong, exuberant old people who feel they have made a new start, there is nothing wrong with the Irish Free State, except that.it is not Irish, nor free, nor a state, but has the status...
Lucky Ireland. Almost The Commercial's only bright page is that headed IRISH FREE STATE'S STEADY ADVANCE: The Shannon Scheme Completed...
...burdened like Mother Britain with a disheartening War debt, pert Daughter Ireland has been stepping out for Prosperity. The business event of the year was of course the virtual completion of President Cosgrave's stupendous German-engineered project for hydroelectrification of the oft sung and storied River Shannon (TIME, Aug. 5). But The Commercial supplies many a significant fact about what has happened since Henry Ford changed his mind about "abandoning Ireland...
When his rum was refused, Edward Pawley in the role of the bootlegger stood outside the closed rooming house door and said: "You can go to hell." This and his subsequent remarks were murmurous realities. The rest was mere melodramatic pressure. Peggy Shannon, an advertised titian contest winner from Pine Bluff, Ark., flirted gaily through the first act but disappeared before the grim days...
Germans got the business because an Irish youth, T. A. McLaughlin. who graduated by Dublin University after the War, went job-hunting to Berlin, signed on with Siemens-Schuckert, dazzled his German bosses with talk of the profits they could make electrifying Ireland's Shannon. First in the field for his firm with ideas and plans, smart Dr. T. A. McLaughlin was able to sell the Free State Government his idea, is now actively in charge of the whole $35.000,000 development...