Word: haras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queer place, Providence, the Vagabond thought. Old Roger Williams stood on top of the State House dome, gleaming in the sunlight. He was a man too good for Boston, and he'd had to leave. But under his effigy on the State House ruled men like Quinn and O'Hara. And they'd had a lot of trouble with a man named Dorr a hundred years...
...overnight. Overnight, Mr. Metcalf stepped in last week to buy the Star-Tribune on the high bid of $181,000 cash, plus satisfaction of a $121,875 mortgage held by one-time owner U. S. Senator Peter G. Gerry. Completely out of the transaction was Walter Edmund O'Hara, who ran the Star-Tribune into bankruptcy after Governor Robert Quinn, his political nemesis, had clamped shut Mr. O'Hara's profitable Narragansett Park race track...
Last September the Governor's Racing Commission cited irregularities at Mr. O'Hara's Narragansett Park race track, ordered Mr. O'Hara removed from control. Mr. O'Hara countered with an amazing denunciation in the Star-Tribune of the Governor and all his works. The Governor swore out a criminal libel warrant against Mr. O'Hara, and later when Mr. O'Hara refused to surrender the management of the track, sent 300 militiamen to close Narragansett Park. In rapid succession Mr. O'Hara was indicted by a Federal grand jury for excessive...
With his chief source of income, the race track, padlocked, with big local advertisers now shunning the Star-Tribune as though it were a leper colony, Mr. O'Hara was now thoroughly pacified. He wrote a bitter valedictory in the last edition of the Star-Tribune before he put it in temporary receivership, charging that Governor Quinn and the Bulletin and Journal "joined in the conviction that an aggressive, progressive and exposing newspaper would be unhealthy for the prevailing system in Rhode Island." As final ignominy, Democratic Judge Jeremiah O'Connell stopped the Star-Tribune press, suppressed...
Brash, racy Walter O'Hara sat quietly by in a Providence court last week while Judge O'Connell smoothed the way for cash sale of the Star-Tribune. Among prospective purchasers New York Post and Philadelphia Record Publisher J. David Stern had the inside track in this week's bidding because he and Son David III had already offered orally to satisfy a $122,000 mortgage, pay $20,000 preferred claims, give general creditors 20? on the dollar. Well Mr. Stern knew the property he sought, for he was general manager of its ancestor, the News...