Word: narragansetters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beach. Ocean Drive and the Clambake Club were demolished. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's sculpture studio was torn off its cliff. Mrs. Jock Whitney's aunt, Mrs. John C. Norris and her son John C. Jr., were drowned in their car as they tried to motor from Narragansett Pier. In a house at Misquamicut, ten women holding a church social were drowned...
Raging up Narragansett Bay, wind and water struck Providence, short circuiting all power. A 300,000 cu.-ft. gas tank exploded. Short-circuited auto horns set up a doleful din. Towns up Buzzard's Bay and along the Cape Cod Canal were devastated. A steeple in East Bridgewater fell point first through the roof of its own church. At Northfield Seminary a falling chimney killed two girls, injured 20. "Old Ironsides," torn from her moorings in Boston Navy Yard, was badly battered...
...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...
...basis of the pamphlet are Professor Chafce's articles in the CRIMSON last November discussing the legal aspects of the Narragansett Park mix-up. These articles have been expanded considerably, packed between a clarifying introduction and a voluminous set of appendices, and salted down with a fistfulls of apt quotations. As an Added Feature there is a photostat of the famous "Star Tribune" asserting Governor Quinn to be in an insane asylum and (for the kiddies) lots of pictures of soldiers and horses...