IRISH FREE STATE: Friend From Montana

IRISH FREE STATE

Friend From Montana

The men of Cork sent up a cheer and the tall, big-handed man with a wart on his nose ducked his bald head shyly. When he got the job of U. S. Minister to the Irish Free State last September, William Wallace McDowell was chairman of the Democratic Central Committee in Montana and could have anything he wanted, within reason. Said he: "I wanted to be Minister in some country where they speak the English language. I've been mining copper for 35 years now, and most of...

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