Word: daytona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short honeymoon. From Havana he flew with his plump bride, 20 years his junior, to Miami where he received official notification of his appointment to the Roosevelt Cabinet. He called at the hospital where Chicago's Mayor Cermak lay close to death. Going on to Daytona Beach Senator Walsh, an honest Dry, told newshawks that under him the Department of Justice would enforce the 18th Amendment up to the hilt until the repeal resolution is duly ratified...
These sensations were described by the only man who has experienced them, Sir Malcolm ("Mike") Campbell, just after he made 253.9 m.p.h. the world's automobile speed record, at Daytona Beach last year. They are sensations which, combined with the anticipation of an immediate and violent death, might seem unpleasant. Sir Malcolm Campbell minded them little enough to go again last month to Daytona Beach, with bigger Rolls-Royce engines than ever in his Blue Bird, to see how much faster he could go. Last week, after long waiting for wind and tides to make the beach sufficiently smooth...
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...
...gasoline for contestants. The show needed an angel. Up stepped bristle-bearded Henry Latham Doherty, utility tycoon who lately bought swank Miami hotels and beach clubs. Alert to the promotion value of the meet he posted $2,500 and a cup for an amateur pilot's race from Daytona Beach to Miami, at the end of a pilgrimage sponsored by the U. S. Amateur Air Pilots' Association. Also he invited the contestants to be his guests for five days. Consequently, 87 planes entered the amateur cruise to Florida. (Last year there were .22.) Of the 87 entrants...
HERBERT B. FREDERICK County Solicitor, Criminal Court of Record Daytona Beach, Fla. Upon Captain George Washington Courson, prison guard found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Prisoner Maillefert, Florida Justice (Judge George Cooper Gibbs) imposed a sentence of 20 years in prison (the maximum).-ED. Appeal to a Husband (Making exception for an extraordinary case. TIME prints the subjoined letters without names, address or obligation. If enough readers desire such service, TIME will establish a special lineage rate for "personal"' advertisements, to be printed in a fixed position in the magazine each week.-ED.) Sirs...