Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevenson will tour New England the week after next in an effort to hold the electoral votes of Massachusetts and Rhode Island which Truman took in 1948 and swing others, particularly Connecticut, to the Democratic column...
...Democrats' delight at Nixon's discomfiture was prompt and predictable. Rhode Island's Senator Theodore Francis Green called on Nixon to name his contributors and tell how the money was spent. When Nixon did so, Vice-Presidential Nominee John Sparkman hinted darkly that Nixon's situation called for a congressional investigation. Candidate Adlai Stevenson said: "Condemnation without all the evidence, a practice all too familiar to us, would be wrong...
...Massachusetts, 350 men, $169,801; Michigan, 16 men, $9,150: Minnesota, 23 men, $17,750; Missouri, 16 men, $11,300; New Jersey, 23 men $14,250; New York. 143 men, $78,730; Ohio, 63 men, $48,550; Oregon, 9 men, $7,200; Pennsylvania, 45 men, $29,800; Rhode Island, 22 men, $11,850; Washington, 22 men, $14,400; Wisconsin, 15 men, $8,400. Scholarships totalling $7,700 were awarded to II men from foreign countries...
Coming here is 1916 from Tunkhanock, Pa., and Exeter, Delmar Leighton was forced to leave in his sophomore years for service in France. After discharge, he matriculated for six months and gained a degree in 1919. The first job he took was in a textile mill in Rhode Island, putting a gloss on cloth. Next he tried selling Addressograph machines, but soon hied back to Cambridge and the Business School...
...group claimed to be the electees of the true convention, while the Blenes group based its case on the fact that the National Committee's call came to them. Once the attorneys were through, the Committee began a raucus internal argument. Eastvold repeated his declaration, and the member from Rhode Island took up the strain. He first suggested that the call was unimportant in this case since the National Committeewoman from Puerto Rico was married to one of the Rump delegates, and then harrangued his colleagues on Gate's part in the deal--accusing the General Counsel of personally arranging...