Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down the chimney into the study of Rhode Island's Governor Theodore Francis ("All-Round") Green streaked a bolt of lightning, smashing bric-a-brac to smithereens, showering everything, including the Governor, with soot. Said he: "I'll need a bath...
Godfather of the U. S. lace industry was the late Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich of Rhode Island, where 41% of the industry is now located. He it was who wrote into the Tariff Act of 1909 a 70% ad valorem duty on. imported lace. Because the U. S. could not easily build the amazingly complex lace-making machines that British manufacturers had been making for a century, the famed Rhode Island protectionist thoughtfully included a provision that machines might be imported duty free for a period of 18 months. Hundreds of machines were hastily installed. Because U. S. labor could...
Thomas Henry Quinn '36, of West Warwick, Rhode Island, was elected president of the Student Council for the coming year at a meeting of the Council Monday evening. He succeeds E. Francis Bowditch...
Thomas Henry Quinn '36, of West Warwick, Rhode Island, was unanimously elected president of the Debating Council, to succeed Frederick DeW. Bolman '35, at the final meeting and dinner of the Council, held last night. At the same time Arthur Gilman Sullivan, of Caribou, Maine, was chosen vice-president, and Irving Russell Murray, of Somerville, secretary...
...unsmiling as a cat's, were discomforting. But most of downtown Providence thought him a "swell fellow." He had a fine seashore house on nearby Warwick Neck, a spacious Dutch Colonial mansion with weather-stained shingles and white columns only a field away from the estate of Rhode Island's rich U. S. Senator Peter Goelet Gerry. Also nearby was the swank yacht-going Warwick Country Club, to which belong John D. Rockefeller Jr., Harold S. Vanderbilt, many another bigwig. Senator Gerry and club members often graced Neighbor Rettich's lawn parties with their presence...