Word: irelander
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...Labor James J. Davis. Since the passage of the Immigration Quota Law of 1924, which assigned a definite quota to the countries in Europe, Asia and Africa, it makes little difference in the alien population of the U. S. whether or not there is a bad potato crop in Ireland or a revolution in Hungary. Immigration has become a standpat, almost mechanical phenomenon. Compare the figures for the last two years...
...opened my stations to the public in 1907, received the Nobel Prize in physics for 1909 and in 1910 talked to Buenos Aires from Ireland. Al ways I was building up the power of my transmission and in 1912 patented the 'timed spark' system, by which continuous discharges of exceedingly long waves (14,000 metres and more) could be employed...
During the intervals of debate on the Public Safety Bill, many a Deputy amused himself by flaying vociferously His Brittanic Majesty's Governor General of the Irish Free State, Timothy Michael Healy, jovial Anglo-Irish barrister, author of that illuminating volume Why Ireland is not Free. Indiscreet, the Governor General is reported to have recently declared: "The longer the Sinn Feiners boycott the Dail the better pleased I shall...
...Mary I ("Bloody Mary," 1516-1558) and her husband King Philip II of Spain bore jointly perhaps the most diversified title ever attached to English sovereigns: "Philip and Mary, by the Grace of God, King and Queen of England and France, Naples, Jerusalem and Ireland, Princes of Spain and Sicily, Archdukes of Austria, Dukes of Milan, Burgundy and Brabant...
...sensation by announcing that her residence at 20 Arlington Street is for sale. . . . Should some oleagenous nouveau riche purchase historic "Number 20" he will have as neighbors: Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (dilettante portrait painter) ; Ivor Churchill Guest, Viscount and Baron Wimborne (onetime [1915-18] Lord Lieutenant of Ireland); Lawrence Dundas, Marquess of Zetland, Baron Dundas (onetime [1889-92] Viceroy of Ireland); Alexander Henderson, Baron Faringdon (Chairman, Great Central Railway); Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson Pelham, Earl of Yarborough, Baron Worsley (owner of many a Rembrandt and Reynolds); James Edward Hubert Gascoyne Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (conscientious high churchman). The King...