Word: fla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heading south, last fortnight, President-Reject Alfred Emanuel Smith paused at Savannah, Ga., to slide down a brass pole and thereby amuse southern firemen. Last week at Sarasota, Fla., winter headquarters of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus, he fed loaves of bread to the elephants and said: "Mr. Ringling-John-you have proven yourself a public benefactor of the highest possible type." At Miami Beach, behind a speeding motorcycle escort he passed within sight of Belle Isle where President-Elect Hoover was sunning, but did not immediately visit. He played golf, went swimming, established himself in two suites...
...Christner had whipped Sharkey, he would have become instantly famed as "the next heavyweight champion." Moreover, the Sharkey-Stribling bout at Miami Beach, Fla., on Feb. 27 would have been transformed from an event into an absurdity...
...directorship meant no immediate labor for Mr. Smith. Like President-Elect Hoover, he departed for a southern vacation. His itinerary called for visits with friend Carl Espy in Savannah, Ga., potato Tycoon Frank W. Nix in St. Augustine, Fla., Circusman John Ringling in Sarasota, Fla. Most of the six weeks he will spend near Miami. Asked if he intended to call on Mr. Hoover, Mr. Smith said: "That will be news when...
Round 9. Mr. Rockefeller Sr., weight 135 lbs., was down at Ormond Beach, Fla., last week, playing a little golf and enjoying the religiously regular daily schedule that has kept him alive to the age of 89½ years. He made no public statement on his son's battle with Col. Stewart, although his routine was likely to suffer interruption. For there was not a shadow of a doubt that he was heart and soul for the son, upon whom rests all affairs of Rockefeller fortune and philanthropy, and who sinks to his knees every night to ask God that...
Accordingly, he went south to Miami Beach, Fla., where in some hope of booming his own and friends' real estate properties, he began arrangements for a bout between Jack Sharkey and Young Stribling, the winner to meet Jack Dempsey for the championship. Just before negotiations had crystallized into contracts, Tex Rickard died, bequeathing, to heirs unspecified in his will, a dreadful situation in the boxing business. Now there were two tasks of almost insurmountable difficulty to be encompassed. First, there must be found an heir for Tex Rickard's problems; next, an heir to Gene Tunney...