Word: narragansetters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orders of the Rhode Island Racing Commission closing Narragansett Park have been set aside by the State Supreme Court. Instead of going before the Racing Commission once more and establishing his case against the track by sufficient evidence, Governor Quinn has decided that it is too late to make further use of the machinery set up by the Legislature for controlling horse racing in Rhode Island...
Professor Chafee's article on the Narragansett Park flare-up contains an enlightening discussion of the legal issues involved. These points of law are interesting indeed, but, as pointed out in the article, they hardly attract public attention as do the dramatic issues. All over New England people are watching the Rhode Island drama with nothing short of amazement, and the reason they are amazed is that they are witnessing the breakdown of law and order...
Libel suits involving public officials and prominent persons are almost certain to create a stir. But there is more than mere slander in the Narragansett fracas. The fight between two unscrupulous persons, one, a hot-headed politician, and the other, a person who, many believe, is trying to buy his way into politics, is bound to be no ordinary fray. Each man has demanded the removal of the other, with aspersions on character and integrity freely cast. Each man has defied the other, and each has taken up the other's dare. The courts have reversed the decision...
Suspended. The license of Narragansett Park racetrack, with a contingent order that Owner Walter E. O'Hara be removed as managing director before Sept. 30; by the Rhode Island State Racing Commission; in Providence. This culminates the longtime feud between Horseman O'Hara and Rhode Island's Governor Robert E. Quinn (TIME, Sept. 20). "Narragansett," said Owner O'Hara, "will not open next season...
...years ago Rev. Arthur J. Watson, of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Pawtucket, R.I., wrote and published two love songs-Longings and A Persian Love Song. This summer, on his vacation at Narragansett, R. I., Mr. Watson made a point of meeting Nudancer Sally Rand, who suggested he send her copies of his songs. When he got back to Pawtucket, Mr. Watson promptly dispatched them to her, said she could use them without charge in her act. Commented Mr. Watson: "I found she is a most maligned young woman: I don't know whether she is a college...