Word: fla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that his movement wasn't on the skids. But one Southern governor had denounced the Klan, without suffering for it, as a mob of "hooded hoodlums and sheeted jerks," and in the past year antimasking ordinances had been passed in Atlanta, Columbus and Macon, Ga., Miami and Tallahassee, Fla., and a number of smaller communities. In Grand Dragon Green's home town, the fight against him had been led by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Council of Churchwomen and leaders of Kiwanis, Lions, Rotary and other civic clubs. Reported Alabama's (Negro) Tuskegee Institute last...
...Petersburg, Fla., slight, dapper James Earl Webb, 49, operates what he calls "the world's most unusual drugstore." Unlike most independent druggists, he never felt that he needed the protection of "fair-trade" (i.e., minimum-price) laws to protect him from the competition of big chain stores. Instead, he went out after customers with such unorthodox loss-leader promotions as selling two thousand $1 bills for 95? apiece. By selling everything from meat and liquor to haircuts and ladies' ready-to-wear, he boosted the annual gross of his hustle-bustling "Webb's City" from a first...
...dead serious. "He's going to be recognized as one of the greats," says Southworth. Certainly, Johnny Sain's pitching arm was the biggest reason the Braves had for hoping to win their second National League pennant in a row. Last week in Bradenton, Fla., with the opener three weeks away, the arm was run through its first nine-inning test of the season...
Herman was the first of the Barkers to go. He got his in 1927, the day after a stickup in Newton, Kans. His body was found in the weeds on the outskirts of Wichita. Ma and Freddie were next, shot down after a blazing FBI siege at Oklawaha, Fla. in 1935, a year after they, Doc and Alvin ("Old Creepy") Karpis pulled off the $200,000 kidnaping of St. Paul Banker Edward Bremer...
...Farm's Coaltown has tied the world record for the mile and an eighth, Trainer Ben Jones insists that Coaltown's stablemate, Citation, is better ("He can catch any horse he can see"). Last week, Coaltown proved again just how great Citation must be. At Gulfstream Park, Fla., Coaltown stuck out his long neck and stormed a mile and a quarter in 1:59.8, to tie the world record for that distance too. Other winners...