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...friend George Jenney that he was not scared to go into politics, was elected Alderman from the Second Ward. On April 6, 1915 he was elected Mayor of Chicago, with the aid of notorious Fred ("Terrible Swede") Lundin, on a Wet-Dry, White-Black, German-British platform. "Freedom for Ireland" got him his re-election in 1919. His third election (1927) he won on a promise to "punch King George's snoot...
...such an announcement were the most natural thing in the world, the Government of Northern Ireland issued this communiqué last week in Belfast...
...outrageous Irish bull. Had not His Majesty eventually appointed the 9th Earl of Bessborough to be Governor General of Canada (TIME, Feb. 16)? To brand Bessborough publicly as a second choice, to reveal blandly that the Duke of Abercorn has turned Canada down, preferring to remain Governor of Northern Ireland-"that," sputtered the Liberal London Star last week, "is one of those things which are 'not done.' We cannot recall an indiscretion of parallel magnitude in connection with a command from royalty. ... In Court circles . . . this gross discourtesy . . . to the Crown . . . has not passed unnoticed...
...spread through the College, Engineering, Business, Law, Dental, Theological Schools and the School of Public Health. Ten of the 27 from Hawaii are in the College. Four of the Frenchmen and three of the Englishmen are in the Business School. The number from the British Isles, including Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, numbers 23. All five of the Scotchmen are in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...edition of Lloyd's Register of Shipping. They noted especially: 1) Launchings from U. S. shipyards last year came to 246,687 tons, against 126,063 in 1929. 2) From fifth place in 1929, the U. S. rose to second in 1930. First was Great Britain & Ireland with 1,478,563 tons of launchings last year. 3) Despite Depression, world launchings came to 2,889,000 tons, the highest of any year since 1921. 4) The tonnage of motorship launchings was 1,582,994. greater than that of other types of vessels for the first time. 5) Largest launching...