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...Dail repassed the bill in its original form in March. By the Irish Constitution it then became law after 60 days and a nominal motion in the Dail that "it will be deemed to have passed both Houses of the Oireachtas [Parliament]." Last week Eamon de Yalera threw the stone from his neck. Speaking in Gaelic before the Dail. he made the "deeming" motion himself. The pack yapping at President de Valera's heels are the irreconcilables of the Irish Republican Army. They refuse to vote for deputies to the Dail: they call the 1921 treaty with Britain...
Died. Bernard ("Buddy") Hanford. 22, No. 6 U. S. jockey in 1932 (146 winners); of a multiple skull fracture, after a stumbling mount (Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark's Apprehensive) threw him under the hoofs of the field in the sixth race at Baltimore's Pimlico track...
...Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel until police forced an entrance, surrounded the priests, got them out. When Father Gatt, assistant pastor, returned to get his clothes, parishioners recaptured him in the rectory. "We love him; we will not let him go!" they shouted. They fought the police, threw them out, locked the doors, refused admittance to a funeral party, cheered when the cortége retired to another church. They took the front doors off their hinges to prevent efforts to close the church, refused to let priests from nearby St. Paul's hold masses, listened...
From the truck a greasy hubcap was unscrewed, clapped down on his head. "That's his crown!" crowed some youngster. Oily slime ran down the judge's face. His tormentors threw dirt at him which stuck to the grease...
...Washington Senators: the opening game of the American League baseball season in Washington; 4 to 1, against the Philadelphia Athletics. President Roosevelt threw out the first ball, stayed till the game was over...