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...touching a tale as had come from across the Irish Sea in many a year. Eire offered to sell Britain some fine canned beef. The British, hungry though they were, said no. Could Eire sell them canned horsemeat instead...
That touched many an Irish heart. John Aloysius Costello, the Taoiseach, announced that he would himself go to London and offer the canned beef at a more attractive price. James Dillon, the Minister of Agriculture and a grand one with a ringing phrase, told why Eire could do no less: "We will never ask [the British] to feed on canned horse ... It is one of the destinies reserved by God for the Irish to chasten the British-and to cherish them in their hour of adversity...
...damned public was not so easily ignored; through the years it had whittled the Lords' powers until the House had become little more than a debating society filled with crotchety, beef-pink, ultraconservative old men. Nobody but the Lords themselves paid much attention to the House of Lords-and that could sometimes lead to error, as Britain's Labor government found out last week. In fact, the error blew into a tempest in which the government, to its acute embarrassment, got a severe tossing...
...barrage of buffets and catered meals came at the traditional three times per diem in Lowell, the Union, the Block-house, Mem Hall, the Harvard Club, and the Hotel Somerset with the diet ranging from Dublin stew to roast beef. The food never ran out although at times fraudulent reunions and uninvited guests almost outnumbered the genuine articles. Led by hopeful Olympic oarsmen, a horde of disguised undergraduates lunched Tuesday on seafood Newburgh at Lowell...
...Truman would be in Omaha to ride in the parade of his World War I division (the 35th); would spend two nights with his old crony, Washington's Governor Mon Wallgren. But Democratic professionals privately admitted that the junket was designed for only one reason: an attempt to beef up sickly Democratic morale. Taking no chances of skimpy crowds anywhere, National Chairman J. Howard McGrath sent out word to Government workers at every whistle stop that the President...