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Result of this old-style manhunt: discovery of MacDonald, now a telephone operator in a Baltimore apartment house. A Baltimore couple recognized the Scripps-Howard picture as their onetime boarder, "Mr. Mac," who night after night sleeplessly paced the floor. He was arrested, held at a police station "for investigation, suspected of being wanted by the California authorities." Then he summoned a lawyer, issued a statement: "I never saw Mooney until . . . told by an officer that this was [he]. . . . My testimony in the various cases was untrue and false. I desire to undo the wrong done by me in sending...
...Gabhra, Oisin was carried away to the land of eternal youth. Although he liked it there he was wishful to see again his beloved Ireland, find out the survivors of the Fianna. But he had been away 200 years. The pagan Ireland Oisin had known was gone. Padraic mac Alphurn (St. Patrick) and his bishops had Christianized everything in sight. Oisin and the new Ireland found each other incomprehensible. With St. Patrick alone he got along well, for they were both simple, both men of action. When it came to converting Oisin, however, even St. Patrick finally failed. When...
...popular songs. Like clocks striking the hour, each newsreel sets the time; also serves as caption. The Camera's Eye, brief scraps of autobiographical reminiscence, picks out quick scenes, quickly vanished, from these 17 years. The main story tells the lives of five people whose lives gradually converge: Mac, wobbly (I. W. W.) linotyper; Janey, Washington stenographer; J. Ward Moorehouse, "public relations counsel"; Eleanor Stoddard, Chicago pseudartist; Charley Anderson, mechanic from Fargo, N. Dak. And here and there, in a kind of chorus to the whole action, are prose-poem biographies of big men of the day-written half...
Crowds of laboring men and poorly dressed women cried "Good old Mac!" as the tall Laborite and Daughter Ishbel passed through the Customs shed in grimy Liverpool. There were more cheers at London's grimier Euston station. But there was no such spontaneous, frenzied welcome from all classes as crippled Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden received when he brought home his piece of "Reparations Sponge Cake" from The Hague (TIME, Sept. 9). Mr. MacDonald was not "chaired" (carried in British triumph shoulder high) as was Mr. Snowden. In his empty hands he brought only Peace...
Resigned. John Van Antwerp Mac-Murray, U.S. Minister to China since 1925, to take a position at Johns Hopkins University. More than 20 years a diplomat, he has served at Bangkok, St. Petersburg, Tokyo, Peking. He was an expert Far Eastern advisor to the U. S. delegation at the Washington Disarmament Conference (1921-22). For a time (1924) he served as Assistant Secretary of State...