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...Europe, however, a report from the International Chamber of Commerce showed, only Ireland has carried through a similar census, in 1933. Elsewhere statis tics are extremely spotty. Britain has no complete tabulation of its retail establish ments, France of its consumption of tex tiles, Germany of its volume of advertising...
...started sending me cables to appear in ... night clubs, . . . and him a preacher, at that." Day later, at San Francisco City Hall, beside Mayor Angelo Rossi, he noted the Irishmen on the reception committee (Quinn, Riordan, Casey, Murphy, Reilly) : ". . . From the names ... I figured I was back in Ireland. And here I always thought you were all Eyetalians up here." The crowd tittered uncertainly, then Corrigan said his last word: "You came to laugh at me and I came to laugh at you, so I guess we're even...
...Great Britain and Ireland have 1,041 trade unions, whose development began in 1825. The 5,308,000 members (as of 1936) are roughly one-third of the workers eligible. About half the unions are grouped, for purposes of collective bargaining, into 63 federations. Most of the unions thus federated belong to a Trades Union Congress (comparable...
...Atlantic flights, caused so little stir in the U. S. that it might just as well have been secret. New York City's whitewings had just cleaned up 1,900 tons of paper thrown into the streets in honor of an Irishman who had managed to hit Ireland. The clocklike navigation of the Brandenburg's, crew, in contrast, was feebly cheered by only 2,000 people...
Patrick altogether-as when he recalls the remark of a Dublin professor ("And the worst of it is that trumpery diseases which we never knew we had lift their heads and obtrude themselves the moment you go on the water-wagon"); when he praises the Irish language ("Ireland is either a Land of Song or a Land of Slugs with a trend to become a Land of Shylocks. Let Song save it . . .") ; when, making his devout way up St. Patrick's mountain, he forgets St. Patrick to muse on the beauty of the human foot (of the barefoot girl...