Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Narragansett Park is a center of demoralization in the life of Rhode Island, but cannot this be met by a repeal of the statute creating legalized gambring? The court will ask whether the thugs of which the Governor complains were much more humerous at this track than at all race-tracks. It will ask whether the disorders feared by the Governor could not have been easily prevented by a court injunction stopping the track as a public nuisance...
...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...
...open, state officials can ordinarlly obtain there abundant help in the maintenance of order, for instance, an injunction at the suit of the Attorney-General against the public nuisance caused by the assemblage of a large number of disorderly persons in connection with a prize fight or horse race...