Word: florida
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Senator Blease: "The Civil Service is the most damnable, the most iniquitous system ever perpetrated upon a free country. I believe to the victors belong the spoils. ... If North Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Florida want to go Republican, let them have Republican census-takers. ... If that is the company they want to keep and they happen to get up with fleas on 'em, let 'em bite...
Then came the final vote, with 264 members approving the bill, 147 voting against it. Small but significant were the breaks in party lines. Twenty Democrats, mostly from Florida (which got higher duties on fresh vegetables and fruit) and Louisiana (which got a higher duty on sugar) sidled over to vote with the Republican majority. Twelve Republicans joined the Democratic opposition. Most of them were midWest insurgents. One of them was an eastern regular-Philadelphia's Beck...
Five small Florida banks, all in Polk County, all units in a banking chain operated by one J. L. Fouts of Lakeland, Florida, last week closed their doors. Cause: Frozen loans in real estate...
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina borrowed, for industrial purposes, from the investors of Great Britain. Both principal and interest, about $75,000,000 to date, have been repudiated by these states...
...Last week President Hoover signed bills to: Appropriate $340,815.08 for the expenses of the special session of Congress; make available $4,250,000 to combat fruit flies in Florida...