Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...80s Flagler, over 50 years old, became interested in Florida's east coast. He saw the possibilities of the playground it has since become. Transportation and good hotels were essential to his scheme and he began to provide them. The "Green Road," a narrow-gauge line from Jacksonville to St. Augustine, was his first railroad purchase in Florida, followed shortly by the construction of the Ponce de Leon and Alcazar hotels in St. Augustine. From these small beginnings the road reached south 552 mi. to Key West...
...British Columbia and Alaska, Governor Olson had studied law by correspondence, returned to Minneapolis in 1915 to be admitted to the bar, to marry and to become county attorney. In 1927 his drive against city graft won him fame. A forceful speaker. Governor Olson today plays golf in the 80s, drives a Chrysler. With small personal means, he is said to be still trying to raise the last payment on his campaign expenses...
...Pops have once more proved themselves unique, once more established their resistance to changing fashions. The Pops Were started 45 years ago, patterned after the Bilse Concerts in Berlin where people ate, drank and smoked while listening to music. Such a scheme was highly adventuresome for Boston in the '80s but the musicians imported for the Symphony by the late Major Henry Lee Higginson needed more than their winter engagements to support their families. They were tired, too, of ponderous scores and strangely enough they found Society in the same mood. The Popular Concerts, soon shortened to Pops, caught...
...chose such a subject as Cimarron's is an indication of the growing interest of U. S. readers in the history of their country. For Cimarron, now the name of an Oklahoma county, once meant the lawless no-man's-land between Texas and Oklahoma which in the '80s was a. wilderness of free cattle range. In Cimarron Author Ferber tells how the Territory was settled; how it became gradually civilized, then suddenly rich from its oil. Now full-blood Osage Indians, bemillioned overnight, ride blanketed in limousines and leave them where they smash...
...since the days of Lord Randolph Churchill's dauntless little band which broke up in the '80s has England had such a blatant "fourth party" (see p. 23). Never before in the whole history of politics has a new party received at its inception such potent newspaper support as that lavished, last week, on what London wags called the "Beavermere Party...