Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President last week, finding himself bracketed with Joseph Stalin in the will of the late Leon Grant McBurney of Long Beach, Calif., ordered an investigation by the Solicitor General. McBurney, aged 72, died last December leaving $1,000 each to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, cut off his six children with $1 each. An attorney for the children requested both big beneficiaries to waive their claim. No reply had last week been received from Legatee Stalin, but it was indicated that Legatee Roosevelt would yield...
Massachusetts felt the full impact. In Charlestown prison, the storm brought 24 hours of unexpected life to three condemned murderers because their executioner was snowbound. A snow plow ran into a train on the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn line, badly injured two passengers. At Worcester all stores closed. School was called off for thousands of Massachusetts children. The Eastern Dog Show in Boston had to delay most of its class competitions a day because exhibitors were stranded out of town. A midnight train from Boston due in Manhattan early next morning arrived twelve hours late. U. S. Route...
...sections of their track trains to Florida. Eastern Air Transport was carrying twice as many passengers south as in 1933. In two weeks 63,000 passenger automobiles from other states poured into Miami. One day last week while blizzards were freezing the North 75,000 people baked on Miami Beach, three times the peak number reported in 1926. There, too, 45,000 visitors filled all available accommodations. In Tampa Barren Collier's hotels, Floridan and Tampa Terrace, were 85% full, reopened their main dining rooms closed all last year. Visitors were warned not to go to Palm Beach...
...Palm Beach Mrs. A. Atwater Kent gave a luncheon for 90, Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury a dinner for 175, and a concert by the Romany Chorus packed its house with 500 auditors at $10 a head...
...Ormond Beach next day an armed guard held back a crowd of 50 welcomers while Mr. Rockefeller, blinking through yellow goggles and again warmly clad, was carried in an ambulance chair from train to waiting automobile. "Howdy, Mr. Rockefeller," cried an acquaintance. "Howdy," piped Mr. Rockefeller. His servants pulled down the car's shades, smoothed his blankets, fussed with his coat. "I'm all right," he sighed, a little irritably. Someone asked the servants how he had stood the trip. "It's fine weather," said they...