Word: fla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sued for Divorce. Circusman Henry Ringling North, vice president of Ringling Bros.; by Ada Mae North; in Sarasota, Fla...
Fort Myers, Fla...
Died. David Bibb Graves, 68, twice Governor of Alabama (1927-31; 1935-39); of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. He was the only Alabama Governor ever to serve two full terms, was preparing, when he died, to campaign for a third. He was nicknamed "the Klan Governor" when he first took office, later dropped his Ku Klux membership. When ex-Klansman Senator Hugo Black went to the Supreme Court bench in 1937, Graves appointed his wife to fill the vacancy...
...southeastern pipelines are also helping -one from Port St. Joe, Fla. 456 miles to Chattanooga; another from Baton Rouge, La. 1,270 miles to Greensboro...
FORT PIERCE, Fla.-The U. S. tanker Cities Service Empire, 8,103 tons, was hit by three torpedoes and sank in flames in the Atlantic Ocean south of here early Sunday, it was disclosed tonight...