Word: rhodes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rhode Island...
Maine 6 New Hampshire 4 Vermont 4 Massachusetts 18 Rhode Island 5 Connecticut 7 New York 45 New Jersey 14 Pennsylvania...
...problematical New Jersey. Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Democratic Senators Edwards, Gerry and David Ignatius Walsh, respectively, were defending their seats. The intersection of senatorial and presidential campaigns is usually figured the other way around. In the event of a Hoover landslide, the Democrats might lose not only the Presidency but a Senate seat each in four States where they now have both seats. In Montana, Senator Wheeler might get ousted; in Tennessee, Senator McKellar. In Missouri, Democrat Charles M. Hay, slated to fill the seat of fierce retiring-Senator James A. ("Jim") Reed, might lose to Republican R. C. Patterson...
Well-poised, the Candidate did not rashly claim Pennsylvania but did declare that Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut are "all right," and that "the tide has turned!" In Manhattan, betting odds dropped from 5 to 1 against the Derby to 3½ to 1. Prudent, the Candidate rested for a day at Claymont, Del., with Mr. and Mrs. John J. Raskob and eleven children. Then, unbedraggled, crisp and confident, the "bronzer"? trooped buoyantly...
...Massachusetts and Rhode Island one of my customers had been delegated to collect funds among the bootleggers which they sent to the Republican National Committee...