Word: valera
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...ramble has left behind such anomalies as that swank Rome dance bands are still being asked by Italian socialites to play The Sidewalks of New York. On the sidewalks of Dublin last week Mr. Smith remarked to reporters how calm the polling seemed, came away from a big de Valera political rally to exclaim: "It was almost as unanimous as a Tammany meeting...
...vote was not nearly so unanimous as tall, teacherish President Eamon de Valera had hoped and expected, but at latest reports ratification of the new Constitution seemed certain by 560,000 votes to 436,000. The de Valera party made a weaker showing, with virtually complete returns early this week promising its opponents roughly half of the Dail's 138 seats...
...Constitution entirely omits mention of any King. It provides for the election of a President having somewhat the ornamental powers of the President of France, with most of the executive job being done, as in France, by a Premier. In Dublin last week Mr. de Valera was said to want his trusty henchman Sean T. O'Kelly elected President, himself to become Premier...
...General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, Australia's Joseph Aloysius Lyons and Canada's William Lyon Mackenzie King under the 1931 Statute of Westminster are just as much the King-Emperor's advisers as England's Baldwin. Invited also was Ireland's gaunt Eamon de Valera, who refused to attend. In Dublin's St. Stephen's Green day after the Coronation a Republican bomb blew the 178-year-old statue of George II off his horse, ripped off both bronze arms...
...frustrated Irish Fascist. General O'Duffy was once a rural architect, joined the Irish Republican Army in 1917. Later he opposed Eamon de Valera with a blue-shirted Fascist army of his own (TIME, Oct. 16, 1933 et seq.), had recently faded from the Irish political scene...