Word: fla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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None appreciates this more than Natural Scientist Minnie Moore-Wilson of Kissimmee, Fla., authority on Southern bird life and Seminole Indians. Last week she raised her voice in piteous protest: "There are no great national parks in the East. A 100,000-acre track in the Everglades set aside as a sanctuary for wild life would be a primeval forest appearing almost exactly as it did when Columbus set foot on the North American continent . . . The areas most suitable for the location of a bird sanctuary are worthless for agricultural purposes. To attempt to cut up the Big Cypress Swamp...
...Bittner, representative of the United Mine Workers in West Virginia, wired Secretary of Commerce Hoover that soft-coal producing companies were attempting to break their wage contract (negotiated at Jacksonville, Fla., a year ago last spring). He said that attempts were being made to lower wages 50%, that armed gunmen were being employed to intimidate the miners, that hundreds of miners were being evicted from their homes by their employer landlords, that, if the Federal Government did not take a stand against the breaking of the wage contract by soft-coal miners, the Union miners of hard and soft coal...
...Florida realtor followed Bryan's motor in another bungalow on wheels, placarded : "Ask us about Tampa ! Ask us ! Ask us!" Countered Mr. Bryan, himself a Miami, Fla., realtor: "You don't need to ask us about Miami...
Died. Brigadier General George A. Dodd, U. S. A., 73, co-leader with General Pershing in the Mexican punitive expedition of 1916; in Orlando, Fla. Graduated from West Point in 1876, he served 40 years thereafter in the U. S. Army...
...priviege of being a pupil of William Lyon Phelps during my college career at Yale, of course I noted the comment on Page 14 of June 15 number of the offer to Prof. Phelps of the presidency of the new university at Miami, Fla., and cannot refrain from writing this note...