Word: fla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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January 22-The seventeenth century in Holland and Fla riders...
...Hoover Cabinet was picked, it was reported, but would not be announced until a few weeks before inauguration.*Those weeks will be spent by the President-Elect on Belle Isle, off Miami Beach, Fla., in the mansion of James C. Penney, chainstore man, intimate friend. A proud parent, the city of Miami proper last week invited Calvin Coolidge to come there too, to stay permanently...
...Dunedin, Fla., city of 1,500 on the sandy Gulf coast, last week made itself memorable among advertising communities. It lacks the industrial opportunities of Dallas, Oakland and similar growing cities. Nonetheless it wants business builders to settle there and for that purpose hired a smart secretary for its Chamber of Commerce-Milton M. Murray. When Bernt Balchen (who is with Commander Byrd now) and the late Floyd Bennett were testing the Josephine Ford plane for the Byrd North Pole flight two years ago, Secretary Murray was a Detroit newspaperman and flew with them on some of their experimental flights...
Last week, President Coolidge officially "opened" the Atlantic Coastal Highway, a defensively strategic motor-road system composed of links otherwise named (viz., Boston Post Road, Lincoln Highway) and new links costing $100,000,000, connecting Calais, Me., and Key West, Fla...
Died. Edward C. Cornish, 57, banking tycoon of West Palm Beach, Fla.; by suicide; in New Orleans. Wrote Banker Cornish, "A few years added or subtracted from eternity make no difference...