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...biggest slave-trading American colonies were not Southern but Northern-Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island. > The first American casualty against the British was a Negro-Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave killed in the Boston Massacre...
...over to the committee, hopefully suggested that by now Baker might have changed his mind. "You don't know me," snapped Baker. "Whatever reputation I made in the Senate, my word was my bond. When I told you I was not going to testify, that ended it." Again, Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell asked if Baker, who had begun his career as a Senate pageboy, had any ideas about improving pageboy hiring practices. To a fatuous question, came a gratuitous answer. Advised Bobby: "There are many fine orphan boys in the District...
...history. In state after state the racing season, both trots and flats, is stretching into a year-round proposition. Maryland's Bowie race track opened Jan. 17, and advertised the fact by flying planes over Florida's winter tracks with banners reading COME TO BOWIE. Rhode Island's Lincoln Downs opened last week, and New York's Aqueduct will open March...
Republicans tried to repeal the 10% excise taxes on jewelry, furs, cosmetics and luggage. Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore, who claims to represent "the jewelry capital of the world" (Providence is a leading manufacturer of costume jewelry), came to the G.O.P.'s aid, cried: "Let's make our women beautiful. Let us not tax beauty." But enough Democrats did vote against beauty to beat the amendment, 48-45. Iowa Republican Bourke Hickenlooper wanted to repeal the tax on ball-point pens, lost decisively...
...axiom was one reason that lean, lively Rupert C. Thompson Jr., 58, accepted an invitation seven years ago to succeed Royal Little as head of Rhode Island's vast Textron Inc. Whenever bankers run a company, so went the axiom, the company goes to pot; Thompson, who had spent 28 years in New England banking, wanted to prove that it isn't so. As chairman, he completed Textron's move out of low-profit textiles and into broadly diversified manufacturing. Last week, grown to 26 divisions that produce everything from eyeglasses and iron cookware to rocket engines...