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...Fighting Britches") Cone; derailed at the last minute was Liberty Publisher Bernarr Macfadden by Townsendite Jerry Carter. Mr. Carter finished second to silent Incumbent Charles Oscar Andrews...
...campaign by issuing $1 stock certificates which bore the redemption clause (and a grammatical howler): "When elected, this certificate will entitle the holder to have luncheon or dinner as my guest at the Mansion." For Senator on the Democratic ticket: six, including Incumbent Charles O. Andrews, Governor Fred Preston Cone, Charles Francis ("Socker") Coe, author of Me-Gangster, and Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of Liberty, True Story Magazine, Physical Culture, True Love and Romance. Declared Mr. Macfadden: "Teeming vitality is of course important, but a Government that robs the citizens of their liberties can still take the joy out of life...
...also explained a new torpedo design which would make a better, larger, and more efficacious hole in the side of a ship by utilizing the idiosyncrasies of rapidly-expanding high-explosives. A cone extends into the rose of the torpedo and results in an explosive effect like that of an armor-piercing shell...
...News (which at the height of the Florida Boom led all U. S. newspapers in advertising lineage) headlined G-Man John Edgar Hoover, ineffectively sounding off against the local toleration of gamblers, gangsters, brothels; and Governor Fred Cone in Tallahassee, effectively commanding Miami politicos to close down the gaming...
...called the place Trinidad (trinity). Thus had Professor Morison imagined the scene before he followed in the Admiral's wake: "About five on Sunday morning . . . when the faintest grey of dawn appears in the east, an ancient pilot stationed in the forechains of La Galante sees a black cone on the horizon pricking up into the dome of paling stars. He climbs cautiously to the foretop to make certain, and sings out Albricias! Que tenemos tierra...