Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard, Yale and Princeton men, Browning, King & Co. means college clothes. To railroad conductors, bell hops and steamship officers, Browning, King means uniforms. The 112-year-old clothing firm virtually outfitted the gold rush of '49. John Hazard Browning, descendant of a Rhode Island settler who bought a "dwelling house and two lots of acres . . . for ?3 in wampum" had been in the clothing business 27 years when news of gold at Suiter's Mill burst upon New York. He packed clipper ships with pants and coats as fast as they could be sewed together, sent them around...
...before the code was signed. The Commission also reported that combined State and Federal taxes, which have nothing to do with the code, averaged 5.14? a gal., or $700,000,000 annually. Highest State taxes were in Florida and Tennessee (7?), lowest in Connecticut. District of Columbia, Missouri and Rhode Island...
Robert Remington Covell '35 of Newport, Rhode Island, was elected president of the Pierian Sodality at a meeting of the organization last night. Other officers elected were; Edward G. Acomb '35, vice president; Lemuel B. Hunter '37, secretary; Robert F. Dine '37, treasurer; Albert G. Sweetser '37, manager; Arthur Ellison '37, assistant manager; and George W. Brown '37, librarian...
...landscape architecture. He will have two years' residence at the Academy in Rome and from that point, as headquarters, will be expected to travel and to study the examples of landscapes architecture in Europe and North Africa. The Fellowship stipend covers all expenses involved. Hopkins obtained an A.B. from Rhode Island State College...
...stump, a master of all the Irish arts of bringing tears to the eyes of his hearers when he told of Franklin D. Roosevelt's great heart. Last year he quietly stole a march on the professional politicians, got his brother, William Goucher, appointed U. S. Marshal for Rhode Island. Boss Farley was reported to have said that Democrat Dowling could have whatever he wanted. Month ago a dinner was given for him in Philadelphia, at which such speakers as Henry Morgenthau Sr., Frank Comerford Walker, executive director of the President's National Emergency Council, Mint Directress Nellie...