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...them and sending them as much as 500 miles in a night. During 1939: Union Pacific began to run one from Portland, Ore. to Boise, Idaho, another from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, another from Denver to Kansas City. Southern Pacific started trains running overnight to Yuma and Phoenix, Ariz, from Los Angeles, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe scheduled redball freights from Chicago to Texas in 24 hours, Chicago to Kansas City overnight...
Married. Joan Bennett Fox Markey, 29, veteran (since 1929) brunette (since 1938) cinemactress; and her boss, Producer Walter Wanger (Algiers, Blockade), 45; she for the third time, he for the second; in Phoenix. Ariz...
...opportunity," and the Irish war for a Republic was on again-with the usual solicitation of funds from wild Irish in the U. S. Things got really serious last month when 150 I. R. A. stalwarts stole 1,084,000 rounds of ammunition and numerous guns from the Phoenix Park Arsenal of the de Valera Government (TIME, Jan. 8). That looked as though the phantom Irish Republic might soon come to life with a real Army and try anything from a coup d'état - sure to be bloody in Ireland - to civil war. As the Dail assembled last...
...Valera Cabinet, continued its Minister of Justice, was quite unable last week to recover the munitions stolen from Phoenix Park, as they had no idea where these were, but they proposed instead to arrest wholesale every member of the I.R.A., which has been outlawed for the past three-and-a-half years. Up to now the Eire Constitution has prevented anyone arrested merely on suspicion from being held more than 48 hours without evidence, but Minister Boland introduced bills sweeping away this safeguard to civil lib erties, and in effect making Eamon de Valera a dictator, with powers to have...
...loneliest, darkest spots of Phoenix Park, Dublin, near the place where a granite monument to the Duke of Wellington stands and about a mile from the Island Bridge barracks, the Army of Eire maintains one of its major arsenals. One night last fortnight a man dressed in an Eire Army uniform approached the arsenal gates, remarked that the parcel he carried was a Christmas gift to the commanding officer...