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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither politics nor favoritism appears to have figured in the cases of four other U. S. sailors or marines, four U. S. soldiers who have equalled General Butler's feat of twice winning the Congressional Medal of Honor.-ED. Hoolidge -? Sirs...
Just the man for last week's trouble in Palestine (see p. 16) was Ormsby-Gore. His Wartime service included political work in Palestine, intelligence work in the Arab Bureau and active service in Egypt. Since then he has twice been a politically intelligent Undersecretary of State for Colonies and Britain's member of the League of Nations' Permanent Mandates Commission...
...Thomas, T. E. Hulme, Wilfred Wilson Gibson, Ezra Pound. Thence he returned three years later to find himself a minor U. S. laureate. He turned to teaching again, for several years was "poet in residence" at the University of Michigan, now holds a similar position at Amherst. He has twice (1924, 1931) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry...
Parnell went back to Ireland to fight for his lost leadership, but there was too much against him. He made Edmund Leamy editor of his Dublin paper, United Ireland, had to raid its offices twice in 24 hours to recapture it from an anti-Parnellite force. The Catholic Church turned almost solidly against him. Shillalah-bearing hecklers turned his meetings into free-for-alls by shouting "Tim Healy's Battle Cry"-"Three Cheers for Kitty O'Shea!" Only the faithful few still followed their lost leader, but when he died, worn out by his hopeless fight...
Died. Most Rev. Pascual Díaz y Barreto, 59, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mexico since 1929, twice exiled, often arrested during the State's 20-year wrangle with the Church; of colitis; in Mexico City...