Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...millions starved; the president who had preached "industrial democracy" and stood by while strikers were slaughtered by his own troops because they dared ask for subsistence; the President who had mouthed the phrases of liberalism and then sanctioned through his emissaries the most vicious reaction in California, Georgia and Rhode Island...
...notice on p. 22 of the Sept. 24 issue of TIME the following quotation was attributed to me, referring to the riots in the State of Rhode Island: "I think I can control the situation but for God's sake tell the Legislature to do something. We need Federal troops...
...Washington by Dr. Theron Wendell Kilmer, police surgeon of Hempstead, L. I. To the convention of the International Association of Police Chiefs Dr. Kilmer reported that tipsy driving cases had jumped 479% in Los Angeles; 380% in Cincinnati; 300% in Philadelphia; 122% in New Orleans. Among States, little Rhode Island showed the biggest increase (100%), Connecticut the smallest...
...second elephant to reach this country, was shot by a Maine farmer because the manager's receipts from admissions were drawing money out of the Pine Tree State. But "Little Bet," soon to follow, had a hide "so thick no bullet could pierce it." Some young pranksters in Chepachet, Rhode Island, pumped her in the eye with a BB gun, costing their fathers...
...Next day Rhode Island was quiet and the worst of its jitters had passed. The Assembly adjourned sine die. Governor Green still was without the power to call Federal troops...