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Word: fla (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. General Gerardo Machado y Morales, 67, onetime (1924-33) President and terroristic Dictator of Cuba, who shot dissenters in the back or fed them to sharks, and whose own officers drove him from Cuba in 1933; of abdominal cancer; in Miami Beach, Fla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 10, 1939 | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...Frostproof, Fla., fruit growers worried by a five-month drought sought out 67-year-old Rain Maker Lillie Stoat of Oxford, Miss. Her method (which, she says, has never failed in over 400 trials) : find a likely-looking body of water, sit by it several hours daily until it rains. For four days, on and off, she sat by Lake Reedy. Then it began to pour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 10, 1939 | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...DARLING Sanibel, Fla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Married. Jack Mercer, 24, who speaks the part of Popeye in cinemanimations of Popeye the Sailor; and Margie Hines, 21, who speaks the part of Olive Oyl; at Fort Lauderdale, Fla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...Chelsea, Mass., after a fall in the police station, Police Lieutenant Edward J. Forbes lost his memory. He had 15? in his pocket. Three days later, when he came to, he found himself in Miami, Fla. with $58 and shiny new luggage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Amnesia | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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