Word: fla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last winter appeared an "elegant" Florida ad. Crested and sealed and flaunting many a name in the social register, even in the Almanack de Gotha, it heralded the establishment of the Floranada Club close to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. " . . . Background counts as much as money . . . society . . . has decided to have a new playground . . . impeccable social and financial powers" (TIME, Feb. 1). But such suggestions were not sufficient to make Floranada a financial success., Last week its backers, the American-British Improvement Corp. filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, claiming assets of $2,551,518.58, liabilities...
Daytona Beach, Fla...
...PETERSBURG, Fla., May 13 (AP) - Thomas Mott Osborn, 80, for more than a quarter of a century warden of Sing Sing prison, N. Y., died here late today. He had been ill for several weeks...
...Petersburg, Fla. He was in Boston...
George C. Osborne ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., May 14 (AP) - George C. Osborne, 80, well known prison reform advocate and for 10 years warden at the New Jersey penitentiary, died here late yesterday...