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...Home Rule bill was passed by Parliament in 1914, but implementation was put off until the end of World War I, partly to ward off the possibility of an uprising by the militant Ulster Volunteer Force founded in 1913 by Irish Protestants determined to fight home rule. The war, however, brought a new complication: the Easter Rebellion. In 1905, the Fenians had reorganized into a formal political party called the Sinn Fein (Ourselves Alone). Eight years later, some of its members helped form the rebel militia that eventually became known as the Irish Republican Army. On Easter Monday...
...Daley summoned the state's top political leaders to a marathon Sunday meeting to discuss the fate of Hanrahan. After heated argument, the caucus decided that Hanrahan had to go. Next day, Cook County's 80 ward and township committeemen met to vote to replace him on the ticket with Raymond Berg, chief judge of the traffic court. They had little time to make the change official. If Berg was going to qualify, they had to have about 6,000 names on petitions by 5 o'clock that afternoon. City business was ignored as jobholders scurried around...
...liberal Democrat who can be casually written off but by a loyal son of the machine-a sign of inner decay. By staying in the race, Hanrahan will boost the chances of the independent candidate for Governor, Dan Walker, a Chicago lawyer and onetime vice president of Montgomery Ward who authored the famed Walker Report on rioting at the 1968 Democratic Convention. If they emerge divided from a bruising primary, the Democrats will not be in the best shape to defeat Nixon -and once again Hanrahan may be keeping an eye on the voting machines. The Hanrahan affair could...
Russian Poet and Editor Alexander T. Tvardovsky had died of a stroke at 61. The Soviet Writers Union did its best to keep his funeral quiet, but Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 53, whose novels (The Cancer Ward, The First Circle) have been banned in his homeland, made his first public appearance in several years to honor the man who had published his anti-Stalinist novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Solzhenitsyn did not speak, but his simple presence made Tvardovsky's funeral a testimony for cultural freedom. Earlier, Solzhenitsyn offered more outspoken testimony...
...Michael Walzer. Judith Shklar, Willard V. Quine and Stanley Cave Jean Mayer, Roger R.D. Revelle, Peter Elder. Martin Kilson William Alfred, J.Q. Wilson Robert Lowell, Robert Kiely. Lawrence Kohlberg. Lawrence Wylie jeremy Sabloff, Jeffrey Brian. J.P. Russo, J.J. Lingane, Albert Sacks and Albert Lord, John K. Fairbank. John M. Ward. Paul A. Freund and Paul A. Cantor. Francis M. and Paul M. Bator. Jack M. Stein and Christa Saas. Ross G. Terrill. Arthur Maass. The list is long, and could be longer. Our Christmas feelings grow still stronger, Yet fatigue is mightier than the pen, We could go all night...