Word: rhodes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indiana at New York; Montana at Mare Island; North Carolina at Norfolk. Battle cruisers* Constitution and United States at Philadelphia. The second sale, on Nov. 1, will include older vessels, now afloat but out of commission: Battleships New Hampshire (launched 1906) and Louisiana (1904) at Philadelphia; Georgia (1904) and Rhode Island (1904) at Mare Island; Connecticut (1904) at Puget Sound. The third sale, on Nov. 8, will consist of battleships and battle cruisers under construction on the ways in private shipyards: Battleship Iowa at Newport News; Massachusetts at Fore River. Battle cruisers Constellation and Hanger at Newport News. The fourth...
...Rhode Island...
...question of the compulsory teaching of English in the schools has turned the State of Rhode Island Democratic, and it may dominate politics there for some years to come. Rhode Island is the most foreign state in the Union.* One-twentieth of its population is French-Canadian. The French-Canadians desire, to retain their hyphenated distinction. They therefore: opposed the law passed by a Republican House in 1922 making English compulsory in the schools, and they turned out the Republicans who had passed it. In 1923 with a Democratic House, a Republican Senate and a French-Canadian Lieutenant Governor they...
...Connecticut; Secretary of War Weeks of Massachusetts; Speaker Gillett of Massachusetts (if reflected); Majority Leader Lodge in the Senate (also Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee) ; Chairmen of every "important" Senate Committee, except three, to wit?McLean of Connecticut, Banking and Currency; Hale of Maine, Naval Affairs; Colt of Rhode Island, Immigration; Moses of New Hampshire, Privileges and Elections; Brandegee of Connecticut, Judiciary; Representative Winslow of Massachusetts, Chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. The formula of New England for getting these results is simple: elect a man to Congress and keep him there until by seniority rule...
James J. Van Alen, "American Prince of Wales," noted Rhode Islander and prominent New Yorker, died at the age of 77 in a hospital near London, following a two months' illness. He left the United States permanently after the declaration of prohibition...