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...Thing: young Ireland feels that her new prosperity depends on top speed performance by Mr. Ford's immense new Irish factories (TIME, Oct. 28). As everyone knows, the Motor Man (Episcopalian) is the world's greatest exporter of motor thews and sinews to the growing young Russian Industrial Giant...
...President". Cosgrave had been in power (the same kind of power as that possessed by the Prime 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...
Though out last week, Mr. Cosgrave was not down. The two-vote majority against him was a mere fluke. The leader of the Opposition was not even in Ireland, had nothing to do with the Government's defeat, was in fact in Chicago. Chances were good that before he could return Mr. Cosgrave would again be "President."' Chicago reporters found the leader of the Opposition, Mr. Eamon de Valera, throwing things into suitcases. He has never ceased to call himself "President of the Irish Republic" but might as well claim to be the "Man in the Moon." Said...
...Chicago, Mr. de Valera has been soliciting Irish money to start one more newspaper in support of his cause: freedom, legal Irishification of Ireland, statehood. "Mr. de Valera cannot be elected President," said Mr. Cosgrave confidently last week, "with the Dail as it is at present constituted...
Balfour Years were: 1878, when he was in at the Treaty of Berlin with Bismarck and Disraeli, as secretary to his maternal uncle the Marquess of Salisbury (then British Foreign Secretary); 1887-91. Chief Secretary for Ireland; 1902-05, Prime Minister, falling when the Conservative-Unionist party split on free-trade v. tariff; 1905-11, Leader of the Conservative Opposition; 1915-16, First Lord of the Admiralty during the Battle of Jutland, after which his cold, minute announcement of British casualties in ships and men almost gave the public an impression of German victory, created a scandal; 1916-19, Foreign...