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...addition to these three teams, squads representing Brown, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, M.I.T., Rhode Island, and Tufts will be entered. There will be no official team winner; there will only be individual trophy winners...
Prior to the Civil War the question of Negro suffrage was debated and in most states settled against the Negro. At the time of the Civil War only five states had no color qualification on the books: Maine, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont; but in practice unhindered Negro suffrage was limited to Maine...
Holly Jane Hyde, daughter of a Rhode Island chicken and apple farmer, had been a lively youngster and, with her brilliant coppery hair, was as bright as a new penny. But when, at seven, Holly went into second grade, she had trouble with reading. Then Holly's mother noticed that sometimes she seemed not to understand what was said to her; she gazed vacantly into space and occasionally picked up her luncheon sandwich and tossed it across the room for no evident reason...
...first formal test of the 1953 Submerged Lands Act, the U.S. Supreme Court this week denied Rhode Island and Alabama permission to file suits contesting the right of Congress to give seaboard states the land under U.S. coastal waters (tidelands). In an unsigned opinion, by a vote of 6-2 (Justices Hugo Black and William Douglas dissented; Chief Justice Earl Warren disqualified himself), the high court held that "the power over the public land . . . entrusted to Congress is without limitation...
Milk deliveries will be curtailed throughout New England today as over 250 "horses" congregate in Rhode Island for the 1954 opening of Lincoln Downs...