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...Corcoran was born in Pawtucket, R. I. in 1900. His father's father was Irish (Presidential Purgee John J. and ex-Presidential Law Partner Basil O'Connor are distant Corcoran cousins). His mother's people were pre-Revolutionary New Englanders. His education, after Brown University (where he worked his way through, centred on the football scrubs) and Harvard Law School (where he led his class) was topped off by a year at the knee of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, great Liberal colleague of Ben Cohen's Brandeis. He used to read Greek classics aloud...
Five minutes later, 33-year-old Leslie Pawson, Pawtucket playground instructor, bounded over the finish line to become the fourth two-time winner in the 42-year history of the famed Boston race. His time-over the grueling, hilly course from Hopkinton to Boston...
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...father, who died in 1927, was a former governor of Rhode Island. he was elected governor of the state in 1907 at the age of 30, the youngest man ever to hold that office in the state. He had been mayor of Pawtucket three years previously...
...promising to repeal a law every day of his term in office Here was a public display of a widely held opinion which is expressed in Middletown by "There are too dammed many laws in this country." Governor Quinn, the Wizard of West Warwick and Walter O'Hara, the Pawtucket Flash concur in this opinion, for according to Professor Chafee these two bulls have locked horns in, of all places, the china shop of the legal system, and they have broken most of the china...