Word: fla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tallahassee, Fla. Gerald 0. Steele, convict, serving 15 years on the chain gang, was informed that his sentence had been reduced to five years because he had written to the Pardon Board and Governor Dave Sholtz praising the chain gang system...
Gainesville, Fla...
...code's price schedule, but, meantime, violators would be turned over to the Federal Trade Commission unless they promised to go and sin no more against Recovery. On the strength of this combined promise and threat, 50 of the littlest cleaners knuckled under, among them the St. Petersburg, Fla. "pressing-club" proprietor whom Federal Judge Akerman, on a technicality, had exculpated from the charge of "chiseling" the NRA fortnight before (TIME, Dec. 11). Those big enough to have lawyers for the most part did not knuckle under. Hysterically cried one Irving Brukstone, representing Chicago's Sterling Cleaners...
Weakened by a prolonged cold, John Davison Rockefeller Sr. abandoned his annual trip to his Ormond Beach, Fla. winter home...
...William E. ("Sharky Bill") Young has learned not to be surprised at anything he finds when he rips open a shark's belly. He has discovered tin cans, horses' hoofs, a small pig, bottles, parts of other sharks. Once, in a shark caught off Big Pine Key, Fla., he found a man's arm, six pieces of human flesh and a square of cloth from a blue serge coat...