Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Providence, the proud old Journal (circulation, 44,000) and its evening running mate, the Bulletin (circulation, 98-663), are two rear-guard Republican sheets in a Democratic State. Major owners of the two papers are the dignified, prosperous Metcalf brothers, textile tycoons long listed among the big potentates of small Rhode Island. Last week, the Metcalfs suddenly found themselves standing by to repel journalistic boarders...
...daily tabloid, change its title to Rhode Island Star. Back of the Star was Pawtucket's Democratic Mayor Thomas P. McCoy. Back of him was Walter E. O'Hara, managing director of Pawtucket's Narragansett race track. Announcing the change, the Star defied the Journal-Bulletin owners as "money barons and sweatshop operators." And, as if this disturbance in the Journal's back yard were not enough, Mr. O'Hara suddenly popped up right in the Journals front yard. It was announced that he had acquired the feeble Providence News-Tribune (evening) which had been...
Aside from political animosity, there is another cogent reason why the Pawtucket denizens have heckled the Journal so insistently. Both Journal and Bulletin oppose Mr. O'Hara's Narragansett track. Not very high in the established social scale of U. S. race tracks, the Narragansett course is nevertheless one of the most lucrative in the land. Into the stout little satchels of its pari-mutuel cashiers are packed hard-earned Rhode Island dollars to the tune of some two million a year. The Star likes to attribute the Journal and Bulletin hostility to the fact that their owners...
Names of five prominent liberals who were nominated by petition to the Board of Overseers were thrown out by the committee on elections of which the chairman is Gaspar G. Bacon '08. In a letter in the Alumni Bulletin which appears today it was revealed that over half of the names on the petition which was received from an anonymous source were those of men ineligible to vote, were illegible, or appeared twice...
According to the letter which Bacon sent to the signers of the petition and which appears in the Bulletin today, there were 204 signatures on the petition. Three of them occurred twice, and of the remainder 84 were found to be eligible...