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...Cleveland. He was born in Scotland, son of a farm tool maker. His Winton Motor Carriage Co. (incorporated 1897) was first to use a self-starter (compressed air) in the U. S. In Detroit in 1901 he raced with Henry Ford and lost; lost another race in Ireland because a frightened Irishman put candles in the gasoline tank to "keep away the devils." In 1924 he stopped making automobiles, to concentrate on marine and air motors. Pioneer Winton was four times married, last time in his 70th year to Mrs. Mary Ellen A very, two weeks after divorcing his third...
...election the Liberal Party of Sir Richard & Lady Squires (she has been an M. P. for two years) was opposed by the United Newfoundland Party, founded in 1928. led today by Frederick Charles Alderdice, Newfoundland industrialist born in Belfast, Ireland. 59 years...
...President de Valera frankly exposed at No. 10 his intention to strive for a union of Northern Ireland and the Free State "into what would be called, understood and accepted as a republic...
...leader of the delegation which negotiated the Irish Treaty [in 1921] so I have had experience with Mr. de Valera. There is no one quite like him and this distracted world should be thankful that he is unique! [cries of 'Hear, Hear'] . . . . His demand is that Ireland be an independent and sovereign State associated with the British Empire but equally associated with any other empire. We cannot accept that! [tremendous cheer-ing]. . . . If we were to have anything like Mr. de Valera in a council of nations when we are trying to accommodate our difficulties then no business would ever...
...novel, symbolizes the three phases of her heroine's career?summery childhood, cryptic girlhood, mystic womanhood. Linda's simple story, the details of her family's life on Shawn's farm, make a pretty picture to hang on a cottage wall. Three generations back the Shawns had come from Ireland, rented a piece of land near Flaydering, near the North Sea. Andrew, Linda's father, runs the farm as well as his Celtic irresponsibility allows. His wife Ellen, once a schoolmarm, has no use for irresponsibility, has less & less use for Andrew's ne'er-do-well ways. Her hopes...