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Newspaper Clippings: August 1959 to April 1960
Michael DeCiantis
A collection of newspaper clippings with dates ranging from August 1959, to April 1960. Clippings are arranged in chronological order. During this time Michael DeCiantis was serving as the West Warwick Town Solicitor. This scrapbook covers West Warwick politics and civic engagement, the town's budget, including an increase to the school boards funds and a pay hike for teachers' salaries, unemployment compensation, the election of Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, and the accidental drowning of a woman and her son. Some pages have articles that obscure other items on the same page. In this case, the same page has been shot multiple times to show all content.
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Newspaper Clippings: August 1959 to April 1960
Michael DeCiantis
A collection of newspaper clippings with dates ranging from August 1959, to April 1960. Clippings are arranged in chronological order. During this time Michael DeCiantis was serving as the West Warwick Town Solicitor. This scrapbook covers West Warwick politics and civic engagement, the town's budget, including an increase to the school boards funds and a pay hike for teachers' salaries, unemployment compensation, the election of Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, and the accidental drowning of a woman and her son. Some pages have articles that obscure other items on the same page. In this case, the same page has been shot multiple times to show all content.
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Newspaper Clippings: October 1960 to October 1961
Michael DeCiantis
A collection of newspaper clippings with dates ranging from October 1960 to October 1961. Clippings are arranged chronologically. During this time Michael DeCiantis served as the West Warwick Town Solicitor, but would later resign and become a justice of the newly created State Family Court. Scrapbook 21 covers Rhode Island state elections as well as the 1960 presidential election, the Crompton sewage issue, the town budget, and the approval and denials of liquor license requests in West Warwick. Some pages have articles that obscure other items on the same page. In this case, the same page has been shot multiple times to show all content.
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Newspaper Clippings: October 1960 to October 1961
Michael DeCiantis
A collection of newspaper clippings with dates ranging from October 1960 to October 1961. Clippings are arranged chronologically. During this time Michael DeCiantis served as the West Warwick Town Solicitor, but would later resign and become a justice of the newly created State Family Court. Scrapbook 21 covers Rhode Island state elections as well as the 1960 presidential election, the Crompton sewage issue, the town budget, and the approval and denials of liquor license requests in West Warwick. Some pages have articles that obscure other items on the same page. In this case, the same page has been shot multiple times to show all content.
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Newspaper Clippings: State Income Tax
Michael DeCiantis
A collection of newspaper clippings with dates ranging from March 1961 to October 1961. This scrapbook has been identified as Scrapbook 21B as it features clippings published after October of 1960 and before June of 1961. Although many dates featured in this scrapbook overlap with dates featured in Scrapbook 21 and Scrapbook 22, this scrapbook focuses solely on talks of implementing a State Income Tax and the discourse that followed the proposal. While state legislators claimed the tax would benefit Rhode Island, much of the general public remained vocal in their opposition. Some pages featured in this scrapbook have articles that obscure other items on the page. In this case, the same page has been shot multiple times to show all content.
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Newspaper Clippings: January 1962 to January 1966
Michael DeCiantis
A collection of newspaper clippings with dates ranging from January 1962 to January 1966. During this time Michael DeCiantis was serving as a judge for the Rhode Island State Family Court. Scrapbook 23 covers DeCiantis' work as a judge and the trials he presided over. He commonly dealt with divorce and custody trials, child abuse and neglect, and cases against minors. This scrapbook also covers the conditions at the Rhode Island State Training School and a glue-sniffing problem affecting young people. The clippings are featured in chronological order. Some pages have articles that obscure other items on the same page. In this case, the same page has been shot multiple times to show all content.
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Loose Papers: Folder 21
Michael DeCiantis
A collection of loose papers and newspaper clippings with dates ranging from 1963 to 1980. Arranged in chronological order by year. During this time Michael DeCiantis was a judge for the Rhode Island State Family Court. Topics include cases that DeCiantis presided over, and editorial pieces dealing with abortion, women being subject to the draft, and the holding of juvenile criminals within adult facilities.
Most of the scrapbooks in this subseries contain news clipping relating to DeCiantis’ career and document public controversies, the Democratic Party in Rhode Island, government and law, and a variety of court cases. Item number 15 includes clippings related to the 1956 Rhode Island gubernatorial election and item number 26 contains newspaper clippings, poems, photographs, and other items which were collected by Michael DeCiantis’ mother-in-law, Mrs. John Glenn. This scrapbook was microfilmed and subsequently removed from the collection by DeCiantis.
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