Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhode Island State College at Kingston, R. I. has 612 students and 49 professors. Also, it owns a herd of 40 fine cows. For the last 39 years, professors who wished milk were obliged to go to the cowbarn with a can and cart it home as best they could. Last week it was announced that milk will hereafter be bottled and delivered to faculty members. Cost: 12? the quart...
...Rhode Island bank deposits go to the State if they have been unclaimed for 15 years. In most States, deposits cease to earn interest after 20 years, must be left inviolate by the bank. Dormant accounts are a nuisance, an expense, since they require constant tracing, frequent publication. In New York State unclaimed deposits come to about $1,500,000 out of five billions...
Lengthy and heated in its discussions, the 50th triennial General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church continued last week its meeting in Denver, Colo. (TIME, Sept. 28). Work done: ¶ The House of Bishops reelected Bishop James De Wolf Perry of Rhode Island to be its presiding Bishop, 86 to 15. His nearest opponent was Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons of California who got 13 votes. Mysteriously absent from the list of nominees was the name of Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island, for whom electioneering had been carried on until the last minute. ¶ The House of Deputies passed...
...used with the prayerbook) was regarded by many as much too High-Church. On these questions the Catholic and Protestant wings of the Church were lined up, more sharply demarcated than they had been in 50 years. Also, the reelection of Bishop James De Wolf Perry of Rhode Island as presiding bishop, regarded not long ago as a fait accompli, was suddenly threatened by a faction which backed Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island. Wrote Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins in The Chronicle (official organ of the Protestant Episcopal Church League, an evangelical organization): "He [Bishop Perry] has been...
Massachusetts. Connecticut, Rhode Island. Illinois...