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...fast mount go hellbent for speed with a prayer that he would not make too many faults. For the Irish Free State that strategy worked to perfection. Canada had led off with a faultless round in 47⅔ sec., which Sweden beat by three seconds. Then out rode Ireland's Capt. Frederick A. Aherne on the chestnut gelding Gallowglass. He was out for speed and he went like a whirlwind, but Gallowglass took that as no excuse for sloppiness. He cleared each of the nine barriers with inches to spare, finished without a fault...
Taking his own time and way of annoying Britain, de Valera last week let to non-Britons the biggest batch of Free State contracts since the great River Shannon hydro-electric project eight years ago. Part of his long-range program to make Ireland self-sufficient, they called for ?600,000 worth of machinery for beet-sugar factories at Mallow, Thurles and Tuam. German and Czechoslovak companies got the contracts in exchange for promises to buy more Irish farm products. When the three new plants are operating next autumn, the Free State need import no more sugar. Next problems: grain...
...National Horse Show, Ringmaster Dutch White, blew "Pop Goes the Weasel" with many a false squawk on his coaching horn and another Manhattan social season commenced last week. It was more than a New York occasion. Dutch White's tootling this year opened a Golden Jubilee. Horses from Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Kansas and Czechoslovakia, riders from five nations (attracted also by last month's Chicago Fair horse show-TIME, Nov. 6) were at Madison Square Garden to participate...
...fierce-fighting men of County Kerry had a fine riot last week. Thousands of them, especially the frisky young ones, think there is no finer man in Ireland than Free State President Eamon de Valera of the long gozzle and wild hair. When they heard that his No. 1 foe. bullet-headed General Owen O'Duffy. founder of the United Ireland opposition party, was rallying his blue-shirted Irish Fascists to a meeting in the little Kerry town of Tralee by the sea, they got the feel of a shillalah in one hand, the heft of a handful...
Died. The first child, a daughter, three hours old, of onetime Dancer Adele Astaire Cavendish and Lord Charles Cavendish, younger son of the Duke of Devonshire; at Lismore Castle, Ireland...