Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Michigan, Wisconsin, Rhode Island. New Jersey, Wyoming, New York, Delaware, Nevada-and last week Illinois, by a 4-to-1 landslide, and Indiana, by 2-to-1, voted to ratify the 21st Amendment. Illinois, home State of the W. C. T. U. (at Evanston) had been conceded Wet since its 1931 Repeal referendum. Indiana, home of militantly Dry Senator Arthur Robinson, seat of the Northern Ku Klux Klan and of the Prohibition Party's last national convention, provided the first real test of strength of U. S. Drys, Consolidated...
Brown University's pacifism excited an investigation by the Rhode Island Legislature. Voting in the poll was forbidden at the University of Nebraska, Hartwick College (Oneonta, N. Y.) and the College of the City of New York. Because the last is a taxpayers' institution, any "Red" result would have been "extremely impolitic." C. C. N. Y. has enough troubles anyway. Last week a C. C. N. Y. student named Jacob Itzkowitz appeared before a Brooklyn justice named Charles E. Russell. He wished to reassume the name Bakur which his grandfather had given up to avoid military service...
...watching 18-month-old Carol Krieg when she crawled into a chicken yard in Hood River, Ore. one day last week. But a big Rhode Island Red rooster was soon angrily aware of the intrusion on his flock. Like daggers his big spurs flashed across the baby's head. A physician found the child's thin skull was fractured. Pneumonia set in and two days later Baby Krieg was dead. Hood River's Police Chief William Hart, the child's grandfather, ordered her murderer's execution...
...selection of House by the new Junior Fellows was also revealed yesterday. Garrett Birkhoff '32, of Cambridge, and F. M. Watkins, of Providence, Rhode Island, will live in Lowell House; Chambers will live in Eliot House; J. C. Miller, of Tacoma, Washington, will live in Leverett House; and B. F. Skinner, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, will live in John Winthrop House. The sixth Junior Fellow, Van O. Quine, of Akron, Ohio, is now abroad and has not yet selected his House...
Divisional vice-presidents that were elected are as follows: J. S. Higgins '07, of Providence, Rhode Island for New England; R. T. Wheeler '05 of Buffalo, New York, for the eastern section; Louis Chauvenet '07 of Eastmont, Virginia, for the south central section; A. L. Cox '07 of Raleigh, North Carolina for the southern section; H. L. Gaddis '12 of Cleveland, Ohio for the central section; Phillip Little, Jr. '08 of Minneapolis, Minnesota for the west central section; J. D. Bowersock '92 of Kansas City, Missouri for the southwest central section; W. W. Fisher '04 of Dallas, Texas...