Word: fla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important Revolutionist, Col. Carlos Mendieta. In 1932 young Mendieta Lizaur was sentenced to eight years in jail on a charge of planting a bomb in the La Salle College laboratory. Last week he planned to join his uncle and Cuba's famed exile colony in Miami, Fla. (TIME, April 10), to help fan Revolution in Cuba...
...second year; 7 & 5 against Jack Toomer of Jacksonville in the final; after taking the medal with 65-72-137 and tying the course record with a 64 in the quarterfinals; at Pinehurst, N. C. C Haligonian, 45-ft. schooner owned and sailed by Houston Wall of Tampa, Fla.: the fourth annual St. Petersburg-to-Havana race, for the President Machado Cup; in 90 hr. 58 min. 45 sec. elapsed time...
Miami Beach Kennel Club Miami Beach, Fla...
...George Herman ("Babe") Ruth: his annual argument with Colonel Jacob Ruppert, beer-brewing owner of the New York Yankees baseball team, about salary; by $2,000; in St. Petersburg, Fla. After absolutely refusing to pay Ruth more than $50,000 for one year ($25,000 less than last year), Colonel Ruppert, presumably in good humor at the passage of the beer bill, gave in last week, hurried north to | see to his brewery...
...Maxie ("Slapsie") Rosenbloom, jaunty Manhattan pugilist who has traveled 73,000 mi. to 30 fights in the past year: the undisputed light heavyweight championship of the world, which most people had forgotten that he did not already hold; in a bout against Bob Godwin of Daytona Beach, Fla., who was designated champion by the National Boxing Association last month after a tournament which Rosenbloom did not deign to enter; by a technical knockout in the fourth round; in Manhattan...