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...Coolidge in the same cities in 1924. Smith lost his own New York State, but, except for 1912, when Theodore Roosevelt split the Republican vote, it had not gone Democratic since 1892. And, except for 1912, the two Northern states that Smith did carry-Massachusetts and Rhode Island-had voted Republican consistently since...
...Forand bill, hardy perennial introduced by Rhode Island's Aime Forand, 64, is piling up bagfuls of mail at the Capitol, so much in fact that the Eisenhower Administration is working up a substitute proposal. Conservative Democrat Mills fears the Senate will unleash the old-age medical-aid winds before session's end, is braced to stand against them when a Senate bill comes sailing back to the House for approval...
...need it most and can afford it least: the 15 million U.S. citizens 65 and over. A variety of bills calling for federal medical subsidies to the aged is before both the Senate and House. By far the most popular and controversial of all has been introduced by Rhode Island's Democratic Representative Aime Forand, 64. Last week the Forand bill was drawing more mail than any other bill of any kind before Congress...
Died. Martin Dalton, 91, convicted of robbery and murder in 1897, who, when offered parole in 1930, toured the outside for a day, wept at the sight of cars instead of buggies, short skirts instead of bustles, and refused to leave the penitentiary; in Rhode Island State Prison, where he saw his last visitor in 1898, received his last letter...
...states have abolished capital punishment entirely: Wisconsin (1853), Maine (1887), Minnesota (1911), Alaska (pre-statehood), Hawaii (pre-statehood), Delaware (1958). Three others, Michigan, Rhode Island and North Dakota, are usually counted as abolition states, because they retain the death penalty only for one or two rare offenses (treason, murder in prison by a convicted murderer) and never invoke it. Eight other states abolished capital punishment at one time or another but later restored it. Missouri, for example, abolished the death penalty in 1917, reinstated it in 1919 after hoodlums killed two policemen in a gun fight...