Word: fla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...papers which gave most of his assets to New York Investors. Later he learned that swift Mr. Greve had formed a voting trust to hold the Ringling stocks and manage the circuses, another trust to hold some of the Titians, Rembrandts, Hals, Rubens from his famed collection in Sarasota, Fla. Mr. Ringling was left with nothing. But he was one of the five voting trustees, and as soon as he could pay off the loan he would get his bag of assets back...
Kentucky's Lieutenant-Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler famed for, his random generosity in creating 644 Kentucky colonels in 25 days as acting Governor, went on a business trip to Jacksonville, Fla. While there he hoped to locate the grave of his mother. When he was a moppet of four in Corydon, Ky. his mother had run away from her husband and two children, married a man in Evansville, Ind. named Fortune. She went to Florida and after Fortune's death married a man named Chamberlin. At the time of his brother's death by a fall...
...Jacksonville, Fla. "Aunt Mamie" Williams, Negress, complained that worry over her noisy neighbors caused her weight to shrink from...
...them had Mr. Marconi's attitude. . . ." The book which Mrs. Roosevelt is talking about is Prohibiting Poverty, a 131-pp. volume by a Mrs. Prestonia Mann Martin of Florida. Mrs. Martin, 71, is a onetime Fabian Socialist, wife of a lecturer at individualistic Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.). At Rollins Mrs. Martin had lectured on her National Livelihood Plan. Her preamble is as follows: ALL OF THE NATION'S YOUNG PEOPLE OF BOTH SEXES, BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 AND 26, AS A CONTINUATION OF THEIR PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION, SHALL BE INDUSTRIALLY ORGANIZED TO PRODUCE, UNDER SCIENTIFIC DIRECTION...
...Fort Myers, Fla., a physician who visited Negro James Glover in the count) jail found him suffering from paralysis of the right arm, pulled an ice pick three and one-half inches long out of James Glover's brain without an anesthetic. James Glover had not known it was there guessed it must have been driven in during a fight. Said he: "It sure does feel better...