Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson sailors will enter Brown's 20th Fall Invitation Regatta tomorrow at Providence. Brown and Bowdoin are favored in the Seekonk River classic. Yale, Dartmouth, Rhode Island, and M.I.T. are also expected to place...
Governor Adlai E. Stevenson told a capacity crowd in Springfield Memorial Auditorium Saturday night that "the deeply ominous growth of bigness in American society" is threatening individual freedom, as he climaxed a day-long tour through key cities and towns in Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts...
Stevenson's motorcade, leaving Providence early Saturday afternoon with horns and sirens wailing, included approximately 100 vehicles. In the van were the open cars of the candidate and his sons, his official family, and the Democratic aspirants for lower places on the Rhode Island and Massachusetts tickets...
...Rhode Island...
...learned how to dance. "I made up my mind that I had to conquer my shyness. I had to get a measure of social ease," he wrote home to his mother, who frowned on dancing. He began calling upon a Providence belle named Abby Aldrich, daughter of Rhode Island's powerful, wealthy senior U.S. Senator, Nelson Aldrich, at her home at 110 Benevolent Street. He took Abby to college dances and football games, out on tandem rides and canoeing trips down Ten Mile River. ("She was so gay and young and so in love with everything.") Week by week...