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...many hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Husband refused to> comment. But the higher officials in the Department of Labor were reported to be incensed by Mr. Curran's criticism. They insisted that no favoritism was involved, that the new way was being tried out experimentally in Great Britain and Ireland to see if it would work, that other nations had objected to our establishing stations for examining immigrants in their ports,but that if the system worked, and consent were obtained, it would be extended to other countries. They maintained that the new way was established for the convenience...
...London opened the first British Commonwealth Labor Conference. Ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald, speaking on behalf of the British Labor Party, welcomed Labor delegates from Australia, Canada, India, Ireland (Free State and Ulster), Newfoundland, South Africa and the mandate of Palestine. To them he urged acceptance of a Commonwealth preference based not upon tariff reform but upon "large wholesale purchases by committees under Government control" which, presumably, would buy solely from the overseas British...
STORIES OF OLD IRELAND AND MYSELF-Sir William Orpen, R. A.-Holt ($3.50). ". . . In Paris I rushed to the Louvre. When I entered the Salle Carrée, there before me was the Mona Lisa. That was a shock. I not only did not like it, I hated it. It made me feel sick. . . . I rushed out. . . . I went back. . . . I was still horrified at thinking her so horrible. The slimy paint, like that of the Yiddish School of the present day! I listened to what people were saying. . . . 'That expression!' . . . 'Leonardo has here expressed womanhood...
...Duke of York twitted "Tay Pay." He had, he said, heard only one complaint about him and that was that he was willing to do everything for Ireland except live there...
...turmoil and stress which used to prevail in South Ireland so wrung his Majesty's heart that, but for him, no approach to a truce or settlement would have been possible...