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...Detroit Times'), president of Manhattan's Keystone Transportation Co. (taxicabs) it is said that more money has been raised for charitable causes under his leadership than under any other man's-some $100,000,000. He once raised $5,000,000 for famine sufferers in Ireland. In 1922 he went to Central Europe and Russia in the interest of the American Relief Administration and the Joint Distribution Committee. Four years later he headed the United Jewish Campaign to raise $25,000,000, and in 1929 the Palestine Emergency Fund. At present he is national chairman of China...
Agitation for Philippine independence reached such a pitch last week that President Hoover decided to send Patrick Jay Hurley, his Secretary of War, halfway round the globe to look into the islands' affairs. Obediently Secretary Hurley canceled a trip to Ireland to attend the Dublin Horseshow in August, arranged to sail with his wife and staff for Manila from Seattle July...
...John M. Fry who directed the party which cornered John Wilkes Booth in a Virginia barn twelve days after he had shot President Lincoln on April 14, 1865, died last week in Seward, 111. Detective Ireland of the U. S. Secret Service seized Leon F. Czolgosz by the left arm immediately after he had shot President McKinley, Sept...
...Unlike Author Joyce, who called Ireland "the old sow that eats her farrow...
...trouble. In the rocky sea it took all day long to throw a line between the Nautilus and the Wyoming. By dark the hawser was snug and, as other ships turned to their proper business, the Wyoming began an 850-mi. tow of the Nautilus to Queenstown, Ireland and repairs...