Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pronounced his treatment of Dorr's Rebellion in Rhode Island as "worthy of all praise," and his management of the public funds as "remarkably cautious, exact and particular." In Tyler's time there were no public defaulters, no corrupt army contracts, and nothing resembling the present oil scandals.. Instead of building up a colossal debt like Lincoln, Tyler reduced the one that came to him, and administered the government on one fourth less expense than his predecessor, Van Buren...
...Venizelos once more sprightly and impeccably dandified. He sipped champagne with a zest smacked of youth. He popped in and out of limousines with ladies. He spent some of the money of his rich new Greek wife. And then, came sudden reaction. The Great Man retired to Crete, the island of his birth. He would, he said, translate and edit the works of Historian Thucydides (died circa 400 B. C.). He would be deeply, profoundly absorbed for a long time, perhaps until Death came. . . . Promptly suspicious Greeks reasoned that so successful a maker of history as Eleutherios Venizelos might soon...
Commander Barnes new assignment is considered one of the "prize assignments" of the Navy. He came to Harvard from the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island. Previous to that, he was on the cruiser Raleigh...
Nyatt, R.I., May 30--Playing four somes in the morning and singles matches in the afternoon on the Rhode Island Country Club course, the Harvard golfers suffered a decisive setback here today in their matches with Yale. The Crimson teams dropped the University contest 7 to 2 and the Freshman event...
Captain Phillips Finlay '31 will lead his Freshman golf team against the strong Yale players at the Rhode Island country Club in Providence tomorrow. due to the cancellation of the Dartmouth match on May 19, the Yale contest will be the first encounter of the Freshman season...