Word: rhodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alexander Dorner, director of the Rhode Island School of Design, will give a lecture tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Fogg Museum. He will speak on "The Landsmuseum, Hanover." Dorner's address, which will be in the Small Lecture Hall, is open to the public with no admission charge...
...first person to be lynched in the U. S. in 1938. There were eight lynchings in 1937, 13 in 1936. There have been some 5,000 in the U. S. since complete records began in 1882. There have been lynchings in every State in the Union save four?Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont. But if the practice has been general, the opposition to laws intended to suppress it has centred in the South. For two generations Southern Representatives and Senators have greeted every lynching bill that came up for debate with a reaction as sharp and unfailing...
...boss of all three Providence dailies, Stephen Metcalf last week sent Journal-trained journalists to run the Star-Tribune until "adequately financed, independent operation of the Star-Tribune can be arranged, through reputable Rhode Island ownership of whatever political complexion. . . ." Then the Journal will sell...
...pacified. He wrote a bitter valedictory in the last edition of the Star-Tribune before he put it in temporary receivership, charging that Governor Quinn and the Bulletin and Journal "joined in the conviction that an aggressive, progressive and exposing newspaper would be unhealthy for the prevailing system in Rhode Island." As final ignominy, Democratic Judge Jeremiah O'Connell stopped the Star-Tribune press, suppressed Mr. O'Hara's farewell...
Though they come from the ends of the earth," they telephone their lawyers. A good punch on the nose of one or the other of the two men would have settled the leadership of the Rhode Island Decocracy more quickly than the present litigation, which will drag out for years and leave the victorious merely the man whose legal crutch contains the smallest percentage of rubber...