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Labor Party: The Labor group, led by English-born Thomas Johnston, has done much good work for the working classes. It is strictly constitutional in its methods, moderate in policy, and contains many able politicians. Until the advent of the Republicans, it occupied the extreme left benches and is, therefore, paradoxically, to be considered the radical party of the Free State...
...Thomas Johnston, who may be the President of the next government, is one of the great figures of the Dail, much as is "Tay Pay" O'Connor in the House of Commons. Able, quiet, indomitable, he is a seasoned parliamentarian. With hair almost white and grave, beetling brows, he presents a picture of the serious, handsome, ideal statesman. Many a time has he prevented a bill from being rushed through the Dail without discussion, when his young, inexperienced henchmen were unaware of what was happening, and thus put a spoke in President Cosgrave's governmental wheels...
...appear to be any ground whatever for them. Nobody need expect Erin to become a republic overnight. The Republicans are practically deadlocked in the Dail, for the rest of the House is overwhelmingly pro-treaty and a coalition for Mr. de Valera on the Republican issue is impossible. Thomas Johnston made that much plain last week, and his party is nearest in political complexion to the de Valera-ites...
...newly elected grand chief engineer is Alvanley ("Al") Johnston, 52, Canadian-born, quiet-mannered, efficient. For 32 years he was an engineer on the Great Northern, now carries a free pass on that road as a "Veteran Engineer...
...PERCY POWELL (Original Subscriber) The Alumni Review, Chapel Hill, N. C. Kudos bestowed by the University of North Carolina last month: LL.D.'s on Federal Judge John Johnston Parker of Charlotte, N. C.; on State Superintendent of Public Instruction A. T. Allen, and Alfred M. Scales, wealthy Greens boro, N. C., businessman; Sc. D. on Dr. James B. Murphy of the Rockefeller Institute, Manhattan ; D. D. on Bishop Thomas C. Darst of the East Carolina Protestant Episcopal Diocese.-ED. Omitted...