Word: fla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of Rolland L. Dean who, after graduation from Yale in 1923, became editor and publisher of the Sanford, Fla., Daily Herald. The big man of Sanford was Forrest Lake, mayor for 20 years, president of the most potent local bank, business and social dictator. Editor Dean, naturally enough, was taken into the friendship of Mayor Lake. But in 1926, Editor Dean discovered that Mayor Lake had pocketed the difference between $100 and $95.10 on a number of town bonds which he had sold to Manhattan financiers. He immediately published the story, beginning: "An optimist is a man who sells...
Married. Potter D'Orsay Palmer, 23, Chicago scion, grandson of the late socially famed Mrs. Potter Palmer; to Eleanora Goldsmith, 16-year-old high-school junior; of Sarasota, Fla. Telegrams sent to 67 Florida county judges by the Potter family failed to halt the ceremony; the eloping couple were married by a justice of peace at Fort Meade, Fla...
Last week was not strikingly different from a hundred preceding weeks of Mr. Rockefeller. He was at his home in Lakewood, N.J. He had spent the winter and early spring at Ormond Beach, Fla. Soon he will go to his favorite estate ? 6,000-acre Pocantico Hills, with grottoes, pergolas, cascades, Greek statues, near Tarrytown, N. Y. He travels with the seasons, so that they will not interfere with his schedule...
...regional vice presidents named were: Northeast, Everett J. Lake '92, of Hariford, Connecticut, former governor of Connecticut; East, Nathan Mayward '95, of Philadelphia; South Central, Walter 1. McCoy '82, of Washington, D. C.; South, Maxwell H. Kilbert '89, of Jacksonville, Fla., Central, Joseph L. Palatine '98, of Chicago, III.; West Central, Dan B. Holt '90, of Fargo, N. D.; Southwest Central, Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. '00, of St. Louis, Mo.; Southwest, Louis W. Hickey '10, of Dallas, Tex.; North Pacific, Rogers MacVeagh, of Portiand. Ore.; South Pacific. Roy James '09, of Los Angeles, Call.; Canadian, James A. Eckles '10, of Montreal...
Died. Frank Lockhart, 26, U. S. automobile racing champion; in an accident, while trying to establish a new record; at Daytona Beach, Fla. Last August he made a track record of 135.5 m. p. h. and in October set eight broad track noncompetitive speed records...