Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Florida. Though Brooklyn-born and Yale-educated, Governor David ("Dave") Sholtz, 41, boosts his state like a native. Round-faced and jovial, he is a Daytona Beach lawyer, an Elk, a Mason, an American Legionary, a Rotarian. His campaign speeches drew men from barbers' chairs with lather still on their faces...
...Atlantic off Palm Beach aboard Captain Herman Gray's sloop Orca, President Hoover's luck changed. His first day's catch: three sails (one 7 ft., 8 in.) and a dolphin. The second day he got two more "sails," one of which was barely an inch too short to win him the "diamond button" awarded by the Sailfish Club of Florida for eight-footers...
...Year's Day the President & guests attended services at the Royal Poinciana Community Chapel, spent an hour driving about Palm Beach in a borrowed car. Early next morning he boarded a train to return to Washington and the last 59 days of his term in the White House. ¶ With the President absent, the White House offices were cleaned and painted for his successor. Because of the President-elect's lameness, short ramps will replace steps at the side door of the executive offices leading to the White House and in the east end of the second-floor...
...despite his own deprecation of the title. "First man to fly" was Frenchman Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier, who went up in a captive fire-balloon in October 1783. "First man to fly in a powered heavier-than-air craft" was, as every schoolboy knows, Orville Wright along the beach at Kitty Hawk, N. C. in 1903. Alberto Santos-Dumont first got off the ground with a box-kite type of powered machine in France three years later, rose 20 ft., went 720 ft. in 21 sec. His machine added nothing to plane construction but his cheerful survival of many...
Cinemagoers who saw Air Mail recall the furtive pilot who early in his career, had 'chuted from a floundering transport, leaving his passengers to die. At Long Beach, Calif, last week the reverse of that incredible episode was enacted. Lieut. Parker Abbott, U.S.N.R., nearly lost his own life while trying to make his terrified passenger jump from a spinning Navy plane. The passenger, another reservist named Floyd Vivian Schultz, sat motionless, paralyzed by fear. Lieut. Abbott tried in vain to push him out, finally had to jump, leave Schultz to crash with the plane...