Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhode Island. In his attempt to regain the Senate seat and the high place in Washington society he lost two years ago, Peter Goelet Gerry, Democratic nominee, had the advantage of a smart wife who can speak French. Mrs. Gerry (once Mrs. George Washington Vanderbilt) campaigned for her husband by going into the homes of French-Canadian textile workers in the Blackstone and Pawtuxet valleys to speak to them in their own language. Adroitly she shut the door behind her on newsmen who sought to quote her French. Nominee Gerry's opponent, Republican Senator Jesse Houghton Metcalf, raised...
...three for the Sidney Thompson Fairchild Scholarships, a fourth for the Reuben B. Hutchcraft Memorial Scholarship. The holders are Nathan Davis, of Arlington, New Jersey; Joseph V. Crockett, Jr., of Nashville, Tennessee; and William M. Marvel '30, of West Medford, for the Fairchild Scholarships; and Maurice Abrams, of Providence, Rhode Island, for the Hutchcraft Scholarship...
Weaslers. Sitting on the fence itself are the weaslers whose catchpenny slogan is "Law Enforcement." They actively avoid a binding stand on the basic question as long as possible. A referendum weasler is Senator Metcalf who puts off a declaration of his position until he sees how his Rhode Island votes this year. The "neutral" weasler who says...
...safely through the primaries will run their voting strength up to 285. Twenty-four congressional districts will witness election contests in which the Wet & Dry issue will more or less figure: Delaware i; Illinois 5; Indiana 1; Iowa 1; Maryland 1; Massachusetts 3; Ohio 4; Oregon 1; Rhode Island 3; Virginia 1; New Jersey 3. Any Wet winnings in these contests will increase that bloc's strength above 109. At least 17 members have gotten through the primaries and will likely be re-elected by weasling...
...address given by Charles Evans Hughes at the one hundredth anniversary of the Rhode Island Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa is especially interesting in the light of recent developments at Harvard. Dealing with the subject of college from the standpoint of both student and educator, the Chief Justice declared: "We may at times overestimate what can be accomplished in the few years of college training, and there are not wanting those who in their zeal to dignify and extend college work forget that college is made for man and not man for college . . ." Striking against attitudes of indifference, intolerance...