Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Drib Braggiotti will assume mound duty for the Crimson with Bill Lincoln in reserve and the rest of the starting lineup unchanged. Handicapped by prevailing bad weather the team will face a tough assignment in the Rhode Islanders...
...which the Federal Government put up $1,069,333,771 or 72.3 per cent; State governments 12.6 per cent and communities 15.1. The contribution of the national government to the total expended in a state varied from 99.9 per cent in Florida to 45.7 in Rhode Island...
...Manhattan, 28 colleges sent contestants to compete for the intercollegiate championships in the climactic meet of the indoor track and field season. Manhattan College won, 26½ points to Harvard's 16½. Henry Dreyer of Rhode Island State beat all indoor and outdoor records by throwing a 35-lb. weight 56 ft. 9 in. Keith Brown of Yale won the high-jump championship at 6 ft. 4 in., moved over to the pole-vault runway and beat his own intercollegiate record by sailing over the crossbar...
...Columbus, Ohio, Mrs. Christian Sells Jaeger, historian of the Columbus Genealogical Society, trailing the Sells family back through the ages in genealogical libraries in Chicago, Washington and New York, solemnly announced that she had tracked it down to Adam. Her course (going backward): Rhode Island's Roger Williams, Britain's Plantagenets, 21 generations of Scottish kings, 19 centuries of Irish kings, Egypt's Pharaoh Nectonidus; Judah's Zedekiah, Israel's David, Enos, Seth and thus (4,000 B.C.) Adam...
Providence R. I., March 7--General Hugh S. Johnson, former NRA Administrator, told the Rhode Island Bar Association here tonight that there has been a favorable reaction to that part of his Monday night speech in which he attacked the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, the radio priest...