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...force that has occurred at Narragansett is the force exerted by the soldiers sent in by Governor Quinn. Apparently the only war in Rhode Island is the war of words between the pent-house and the State House. If there has been no more disorder and violence at this race-track than what Boston newspapers have reported, then the odds against the legality of the Governor's action are longer odds than these wagered on any horse that ever ran at Narragansett Park...
Numerous acts of violence have occurred at the race-track in the past few months. Large numbers of thugs, gangsters and racketeers have assembled on and about the premises. Mr. O'Hara, the managing director of the race-track, has imported known criminals into the State to coerce and frighten public officials. He has illegally interfered with the conduct of office of the former sheriff of the county, so as to require the removal of that sheriff. (This refers, among other matters, to the charge that this sheriff appointed deputy sheriffs who had criminal records...
...Pawtucket police to intimidate public officials and prevent them from performing their duties, (As Mr. O'Hara is linked with the Pawtucket faction in the Democratic Party, which opposes the Governor's faction, the Pawtucket police have given no help to the Governor in his controversy with the race-track corporation, and he has been obliged to rely on the State Police and the National Guard...
...sequences, mostly in the middle of the picture, director Jack Conway used longshots of a double so adroitly that cinemaddicts are not likely to detect Miss Harlow's absence. Good shots: the flamingos at Miami's Hialeah Park; Duke Bradley's assistant (Cliff Edwards) singing a race-track ballad "The Horse with the Dreamy Eyes," in a crowded car on the track special from Maryland; Bradley making book...
...They were against the Ku Klux Klan during its heyday in Texas in the early 19205. They bucked demagogic Governor "Jim" Ferguson. They refused to take oil promotion advertising during the Burkburnett, Ranger, Eastland and East Texas booms. Last week, seven days after the Legislature outlawed all forms of race-track betting in Texas, Publisher Dealey, now 77, again placed his papers in the position of doing the virtuous thing at the risk of losing readers. Announced he: "The Dallas News and the Dallas Journal, believing that anti-racing legislation expresses the will of the people of the State, have...