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Word: rhodes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solemn man whom the ordinary run of jokes fails to amuse. But this time he had gripped, he thought, a Constitutional jest, the cream of which would taste sour in the mouths of the Wets. All a-chuckle, he was not hesitant in sharing it with the world. Rhode Island had raised a captious question on the 18th Amendment's ratification. Senator Borah judicially pronounced it "utterly unsound" and then continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Borah's Joke | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...Baltimore Gets Cautious"; "Florida Doesn't Worry"; "Millennium in Boston"; "Warfare in Los Angeles"; "Albany Much Drier"; "Denver Bootleggers Scared"; "Profiteering in Cincinnati"; "Washington Dealers Careful"; [Texas] "Not Jones But Hoover"; "Deaths in St. Louis"; "Corn in Kansas City"; "Moonshine in Louisville"; "Pittsburgh Dealers Quit"; "Cleveland Undismayed"; "Rhode Island Calms Down"; "Indianapolis Unafraid"; "Atlanta Little Affected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Five & Ten | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...Athletics, and E. A. Wachter, University basketball mentor, will represent Harvard. As far as is known representatives from the following schools and colleges will also be present: Northeastern, Norwich, Vermont, Andover, Worcester, Tech, Trinity, Massachusetts Aggies, Milton, M. I. T., Amherst, Brown, New Hampshire, Holy Cross, Tufts, Wesleyan, and Rhode Island State...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASKETBALL CONFERENCE DRAWS TWENTY COACHES | 3/30/1929 | See Source »

...realize the gravity of your fault, and hasten to liberate yourself from the penalty which it has brought upon you. "Yours very sincerely, "P. Fumasoni-Biondi." Attorney Daignault became an outcast from his Church. To get reinstated he had humbly, sincerely to repent. Last week in Rhode Island they whispered that Dainault had at last repented, begged forgiveness, that Mother Church would once more take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Penitent Daignault | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...James Wolcott Wadsworth were moneymen, but they have departed from the House and Senate, respectively. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, Secretary Mellon's haggard, Princeton-educated protege, might stand as the senatorial moneyman. In the House are New York's Snell, a florid, solid cheesemaker; Rhode Island's Richard S. Aldrich, son of the late great Senator Nelson Aldrich; and Pennsylvania's Harry Estep, a young Mellonite member of the Ways & Means Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Federal Reserve v. Speculation | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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