Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what he can do for Haiti in the meantime, President Hoover with congressional authority last week appointed two commissions, one formal and white, one informal and black. White: Chairman, William Cameron Forbes, onetime Governor General of the Philippines; Henry Prather Fletcher, one-time Ambassador to Italy; Elie Vezina of Rhode Island, Papally beknighted newsman; James Kerney, editor of the Trenton (N. J.) Times; William Allen White, Editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. Black: Mr. Hoover appointed an informal, independent commission headed by Robert Russa Moton, President of Tuskegee Institute, to make an exhaustive survey of Haitian education...
State medians for 5,610 girls reported by Miss Pidgeon: California, $16; Michigan, $15; Kentucky, $14; Missouri and New Jersey, $13; Ohio, $12; Delaware and Rhode Island, $11; Arkansas, Florida, Oklahoma, $10; Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, $9; Maryland...
...Orated one-time Boston Mayor John Francis Fitzgerald : "These men were bringing in liquor for New Year's Eve. They knew it would be consumed by Governors, Mayors, Selectmen, Judges of the Supreme Court-in fact by public officials everywhere." U. S. Senator Jesse Houghton Metcalf of Rhode Island sent the meeting a telegram to the effect that the dead rum-runners had been robbed of their money and jewelry...
Providence. Rhode Island's Attorney-General Oscar Heltzen worked to establish manslaughter charges against the crew of the C. G. 290. When three U. S. Treasury agents tried to enter his inquiry, he ordered them out. declaring: "This is a State affair. You're coming here to listen in and since you won't cooperate, I don't intend to let you in for that purpose...
Married. William H. Vanderbilt of Newport, Rhode Island State Senator, nephew of Capitalist Cornelius Vanderbilt III; and Miss Anne Gordon Colby, daughter of Everett Colby, onetime New Jersey State Senator; by Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, famed anti-Fundamentalist preacher; at West Orange...