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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indicted. Walter Edmund O'Hara, slick little boss of the Narragansett Racing Association whose track was recently closed after a political squabble (TIME, Nov. 1), and four cronies including Rhode Island's Democratic State Chairman: by a Federal Grand Jury on charges of having violated the Corrupt Practice Act. contributing almost $100,000 in twelve months "to committees and persons closely identified with political activities"; in Providence...
...Governor requests, I shall be glad to print his letter in my forthcoming pamphlet on Legal Problems of the Rhode Island Race-track...
When Walter E. O'Hara first came to Rhode Island he told the substantial citizens who were induced to invest money in his race track that he was a Harvard graduate...
This is a favorite story of his. The Boston Record carried a long story of the "career of Walter O'Hara", during which they printed a picture of "Walter E. O'Hara, Racing Czar of Rhode Island, as he appeared at the age of 23 when he was a student at Harvard...
...Hara, this is not due to any liking for him, because in newspapers he has frequently attacked two members of my family for whom I have the highest possible admiration. This personal dislike for Mr. O'Hara, shared by many of my former fellow-citizens in Rhode Island, throws on us an even heavier obligation to be sure that Mr. O'Hara's constitutional rights are not invaded...