Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brown kept up the crusades, but changed their direction and tone. The papers launched campaigns for the improvement of Rhode Island law on everything from reorganizing municipal fiscal procedure to stopping the flow of liquor into state prisons. Staffers roamed the U.S. to see how other cities were run, returned with recommendations that have made many Rhode Island city and state government bureaus models of good organization...
Father & Sons. The papers' activities have not always made them popular. Often readers in predominantly Catholic, Democratic Rhode Island regard them as Republican papers owned largely by Protestant stockholders. In some parts of the state a Democrat can hardly expect to get elected unless he attacks the Journal and Bulletin. Actually, the papers list themselves as independent, have supported most of the policies of the city's Democratic Mayor Walter H. Reynolds and the state's Democratic Governor Dennis J. Roberts; in the last presidential election they were behind Ike. Readers have also criticized their monopoly position...
Advances in recent years toward a more humane prison system in America have been heartening, but capital punishment, the last remnant of the twist-them-on-the-rack-till-they-break philosophy, still lingers on. Many states have eliminated capital punishment entirely; in Maine, Michigan, Rhode Island, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin the heaviest penalty is life imprisonment. But many have not. Some state statute books provide for the death penalty in crimes ranging from train wrecking to rape and arson. Those who defend these laws base their arguments on three basic points; retribution; protection of society; and deterrence...
What Bagdikian remembers most vividly about Operator 25 concerns a wire he once sent about a proposal by Rhode Island Governor Dennis ]. Roberts that the state build industrial plants for leasing to private firms. Roberts called the plan "a lively experiment." Bagdikian explained thai the expression came from the inscription on the State House, which he quoted from memory: "To hold forth a lively experiment that a most flourishing state may stand and best be maintained with full liberty in religious concernments." A little later he got a message to call Operator 25. Shouldn't the quotation read...
Three victories and two second place performances in seven races gave the Crimson sailing team a 51 to 49 upset win over the University of Rhode Island in the "Raven Octagonal," held Sunday at New London, Conn...