Word: rhodes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rhode Island passed by her great opportunity...
...awaited the fertile mind of a Rhode Islander to discover the latter difference. It so happens that in Rhode Island the country districts are Republican, the city districts Democratic. Since the country existed before the city, the State Constitution was made by the countrymen, and the countrymen-Republicans have been jealously guarding the Constitution ever since, in order to preserve it from the ravages of the citymen-Democrats...
...population, but the State Senate is elected, one member from each town, regardless of population. Result: 22 Republicans in the Senate to only 17 Democrats, and the rest of the State Government largely Democratic, except for appointive officers. These are Republican, and for a good reason. There is a Rhode Island law that if the Governor makes an appointment which is not approved by the Senate within 72 hours, the Senate may make appointments...
Jewish men holding exercises in Rhode Island...
...Berengaria (Cunard)?R. Livingston Beeckman, onetime Governor of Rhode Island; L. Heilbroner, of Weber & Heilbroner (haberdashery) ; Gennaro Papi, conductor of the Metropolitan Opera; Oscar S. Straus, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Turkey...