Word: fla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: As an enthusiastic TIME reader, I do want to congratulate you on the limitation decision and your determination to keep TIME the short, snappy publication it now is. CITY OF WEST PALM BEACH West Palm Beach, Fla. Sirs: Your announcement to the effect that TIME will limit its pages to 80 per issue is wise. The issues have been few and far between during the past five years which I have not cover-to-covered. Incidentally, such a limit makes each advertising page more valuable...
...show man in Mr. Ringling except that he is sartorially on the same plane as New York's Mayor Walker. He is the owner of various oil-wells and railroads, of a Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, mansion, a 46-acre estate at Alpine, N. J., a Venetian palazzo at Sarasota, Fla. At Sarasota he has a museum, but not in the circus sense of the word. It is filled with Gainsboroughs, Romneys, Corots, Tintorettos, and works of many another classicist, but no moderns. Last June he bought Rembrandt's Descent from the Cross, price $40,950. The museum (largest south...
FRANK W. MCCALLISTER Lake Wales, Fla...
...murders occur within the jurisdiction of a State, most murderers are executed by the people of a State. But last week under them 120,000,000 people-everybody in the U. S.-joined together in their might and majesty and put to death a Federal murderer near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. It was grim business. On Aug. 7, 1927, James Horace Alderman, fond of being called "King of the Rum Runners," was navigating his liquor-laden craft some 35 miles off the Florida east coast when overhauled by Coast Guard Cutter No. 249. "King" Alderman, a begrizzled, bespectacled salt...
Died. Milton Bennett Medary, 55, of Philadelphia, architect (Valley Forge Chapel, "Singing Tower" at Mountain Lake, Fla., Philadelphia's Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Building, Penn Athletic Club Building, workingmen's villages at Neville Island, Pittsburgh, Bethlehem; consultant architect, Cornell University, Mount Vernon, Roosevelt Memorial Association); in Philadelphia...