Word: rhodes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second floor of the Baker Library in the Business School a room has just been completed to contain the 6000 volumes dealing with economic and monetary questions, presented from the private library of the late Senator N.W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, by the Senator family, which has built and will furnish the Aldrich Memorial Room to house the collection, with the atmosphere of a private library...
...Bayard (Delaware), T. Coleman du Pont (Delaware), Daniel F. Steck (Iowa), Arthur Capper (Kansas), Fred M. Sackett (Kentucky), William Cabell Bruce (Maryland), Harry B. Hawes (Missouri), Henry W. Keyes (New Hampshire), Walter E. Edge (New Jersey), Royal S. Copeland (New York), David A. Reed (Pennsylvania, Jesse H. Metcalf (Rhode Island), Peter Norbeck (South Dakota), Morris Sheppard (Texas...
...commission found foolish?such as Missouri's making dog-stealing grand larceny* and Idaho's law against buying or selling chickens after dark with out notifying a sheriff. But nine-tenths of the changes were declared "seriously and carefully considered"?anti-pistol laws in Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode Island;? Baumes-type laws in Vermont, Minnesota, Missouri, Massachusetts and Iowa; a whole new code in California; the appointment of a commission in Louisiana to rewrite the century-old Napoleonic code...
Onetime U. S. Senators are plentiful everywhere ? except in New England. Within the past four years, Death (as it must to all men) came to Senators Colt (aged 78) of Rhode Island, Brandegee (aged 60) of Connecticut, Lodge (aged 74) of Massachusetts, Fernald (aged 68) of Maine, and Dillingham (aged 79) of Vermont...
...Named after his maternal grandfather. Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, late U. S. Senator from Rhode Island...