Word: woonsocket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Have you ever been in Woonsocket? (where I live...
...Hara is a quick-witted Irishman, onetime Rhode Island mill operator, who suddenly appeared on the State political scene when the Legislature legalized pari-mutuel horserace gambling in 1934. Promoter O'Hara quickly organized Narragansett Racing Association with the help of friends, bought 130 acres from an oldtime Woonsocket saloonkeeper for $150,000, built a track in seven weeks and began running profitable races before the paint was dry on the grandstand. Taking 62% of all bets made, besides gate receipts and concessions, Narragansett piled up a clear profit of $507,000 for 1935, which made it financially...
...conviction of Joseph Gemma, 40, for "stealing a railroad in broad daylight." A Superior court jury found the operator of Joe's Auto Salvage Co. and a gang of men had pilfered 250 tons of New Haven rails worth $3,800 from an abandoned stretch of the Harrisville-Woonsocket R. R. in northern Rhode Island last summer...
...named Walter E. O'Hara, a fast-witted, hot-tempered Irishman with enterprise and gall. He and some friends, including Providence's Judge James E. Dooley, onetime president of the Canadian-American Hockey League, bought the 130 acres on which the track is built from an oldtime Woonsocket saloonkeeper named John F. Letendre for $150,000. Promoter O'Hara gets $75,000 a year as managing director of the track, holds 142,000 of the 350,000 shares of common stock which are its only outstanding obligations. Two years ago, the original 28 stockholders...
...recipients are Fraser Neiman, 3G., of Cambridge, Mass.; William K. Chandler, Instructor in English and Tutor; Carleton Green, 5G., of Troy, N. Y.; George M. Kahrl, of Mt. Vernon, O., Ph.D. Harvard '36; Edward C. Peple, 4G., of Richmond, Va., and Ralph M. Wardle, 3G., of Woonsocket...