Word: flagler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town's atmosphere of rugged independence many a titan of industry had flourished: John D. and William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, Stephen Harkness and others of the original Standard Oil Co.; Samuel and William Mather, President-Maker Marcus Alonzo Hanna and a score of other ironmasters and lake shipping tycoons. In its formative era men of such wealth had largely held the reins of power over Cleveland's development. In more recent years, up to depression, the town had been greatly shaped to the mould of the late Oris P. and Mantis J. Van Sweringen, whose Terminal Tower remains...
After dark the dog tracks and nightclubs are booming. At the West Flagler Kennel Club dog track an average of 3,500 fans nightly bet $100,000. The only wartime brake on nightclub hilarity is the lack of big-name entertainers. Liquor is plentiful, except Scotch, which sells on the black market at $120 a case...
Sentence. In Miami, Judge Cecil C. Curry sentenced two men found rolling dice on a Flagler Street sidewalk to "one minute each in jail...
...smiled: only four days were cloudy between Feb. 16 and March 8. "It was worse last year," the permanent residents said (as it was). And it was a fact that the sun did not make so much difference in Florida as it was generally supposed to make. Since Henry Flagler pushed his bumpy railroad southward to Miami, and the tourists began to seek winter warmth, to millions in the U. S. Florida had become a place to rest, to play, to escape from the year-round realities at home. Up to this week, some 2,000,000 had spent...
...special gift from Harry Harkness Flagler made possible the enlargement of the quarters of the Poetry Room of the Library, originally set up and endowed by Mr. Flagler...