Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delegates from Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island met in the Hartford Convention, accused the Federal Government of giving them inadequate protection from the British, talked secession...
...Reserve base at Squantum is open to men who live in the First Naval District, which is composed of the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Bases having arrangements similar to those at Squantum are located in the other Naval Districts. Seniors who are interested in joining one of the classes at Squantum in the summer can obtain application blanks by writing to Lieutenant F. L. Baker, U.S.N., Commanding Officer, United States Naval Reserve Aviation Base, Squantum, Massachusetts...
Austin T. Levy is a Rhode Island worsted manufacturer who favors the bill. Said he: "It will never again be possible for all of the people of the U. S. who want work to be employed 48 hours a week...
...November, eleven old governors were re-elected of whom only three (Vermont's Wilson, New Hampshire's Winant, Delaware's Buck) were Republicans.-Of the 24 new ones, 22 were Democrats, two Republicans. In Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming and West Virginia the governorship passed from a Republican to a Democrat. Only in Kansas did it pass from a Democrat to a Republican. North Dakota alone managed to change Republican governors without having a Democrat slip...
...seven men who have recently been nominated by petition are John Clarke Grady, of Somerville; Irad Benjamin Hardy, of Waltham; and James Patrick McCaffrey of Providence, Rhode Island, for Marshal. Also by petition have been nominated Edward Hutchins Hickey, of Boston, for Treasurer; Jerrold Harold Ruskin, of New Rochelle, New York; for Ivy Orator; Elliott Warren Robbins, of Brookline, and Richard Hiller Amberg, of New York City, for Odist...