Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gallup Poll (small sample groups of voters polled by mail and interview): Roosevelt 40 States, 477 electoral votes. Landon 6 States, 42 electoral votes (Connecticut and Rhode Island...
...when with the same urge that drove Alf Landon to invade New Deal California, the President took a swing through anti-New Deal New England. One fair autumn morning he woke up aboard his special train in Providence, and began greeting people: Mrs. Roosevelt who had arrived before him, Rhode Island's Governor Green and a fine figure of a man in a cutaway and topper...
...greeters who stood before the Rhode Island Capitol, men, women and plentiful numbers of children Franklin Roosevelt made the first of many speeches. Afterward, with Governor Green beside him, he drove the short dis tance to the place where Rhode Island ends and Massachusetts begins. There began one of the most frenzied .episodes of the campaign. From town to town the Democratic procession roared down broad highway No. 6, past great "Roosevelt & Curley" posters, sometimes racing three abreast. Questions of precedence were settled by stepping on the accelerator. Moving vans and beer trucks joined in the careening motorcade. Newshawks...
Since then, a vigorous man of God who still plays first base on Church teams, he has busied himself with such Church bodies as the National Conference of Jews & Christians, such welfare organizations as the Rhode Island Birth Control League, to which he lends respectability as the father of seven children. Last week in Springfield, Mass, at a special convention of the Diocese of Western Massachusetts-the one sliced off his father's old see-Son Lawrence was elected on the second ballot to succeed the late Rt. Rev. Thomas Frederick Davies...
...Providence, R. I., last week 500 alumni gathered in Brown University's gymnasium for their annual dinner, heard addresses on "The State of the University," by Associated Alumni President Royal W. Leith, Rhode Island's Governor Theodore Francis Green, Vice President Thomas Baird Appleget of the Rockefeller...