Healy

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

TIMOTHY MICHAEL, first governor-general of the Irish Free State, was born at Bantry, Ireland, in 1855. He studied law and became a member both of the Irish and the English bars. In 1880 he became private secretary to Charles Stewart Parnell and in the same year was elected to Parliament from Wexford as an Irish Nationalist, thenceforward serving continuously in that body for various constituencies until Revolutionary Committee was forced to take the post himself. ( November 25, 1922.) A manifesto issued October 18th, declared that the object of the revolution was hastily was to unite the Greek people and strengthen the bonds between Greece and the Allied Powers. In accordance with these policies, former Premier_Venizelos was appointed to represent Greece at the Allied capitals and subsequently at the Near Eastern conference at Lausanne, while leading anti-Venizelist bishops and university teachers in Greece were replaced with Venizelist supporters. Repatriation of Turkish Greeks.-One outstanding result of the Turkish military victories in Asia Minor was the banishment or flight of the Greeks from that country. A number in excess of half a million was estimated to have taken refuge in the Greek islands or in Greece proper before the end of 1922, while another 300,000 Thracian Greeks had fled from that province with the Turkish occupation. At the Near Eastern Conference held at Lausanne the Turks insisted that all Greeks must leave Turkey, including the Greeks of Constantinople. le. But they finally consented that these last might remain if the Turkish population of Western Thrace was simallowed by the Greeks to remain ilarly arly there. GUATEMALA. A short-lived union with Honduras and Salvador was formed at the end of 1921, but was soon dissolved (January, 1922) as a consequence of the overthrow of President Herrera. General Orellana was elected President in February, 1922, and was recognized by the U. S. Government in April. (See also CENTRAL AMERICAN CONFER- ENCE.) H 1918. He visited the United States in 1881, speaking in most of the principal cities. On December 6, 1922, he became first governor-general of the new Irish Free State. Author of "A Word for Ireland," "Why Ireland is Not Free," "The Great Fraud of Ulster," and other works. HELICOPTER. (See AERONAUTICS.) HORMONE (meaning to arouse or stimulate), a general name given to chemical substances in the blood which act as regulators, and at need, as stimulants of various functional activities of the body. Such substances are regularly formed by certain glands and carried by the blood to various organs whose functioning they regulate under the ordinary conditions of health. Others may be formed only in emergencies, as adrenalin, called the "emergency hormone," which is manufactured and pour poured into the blood by by the adrenal glands in emotions of fright or anger or danger calling for strong action. Its effect is to stimulate the muscles and requisite organs of the body to extraordinary activity such as would be necessary to self-preservation under the conditions of nature. Foreign substances or poisons introduced into the blood often act as hormones, i. e. chemically exciting the body cells with which they come in contact to produce and pour out neutralizing substances.