Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also here since July was Lieutenant (jg) Wilbur Irwin. Naval Administration teacher, who reported last week to Miami Beach, Florida, for another teaching assignment...
...flurry of excitement over the soldier vote came after Franklin Roosevelt stole a march on all other 1944 candidates. For the first time since February, Franklin Roosevelt sat before a battery of microphones, carrying his message all over the world, to deliver a report to his constituents from Florida to Washington and from Alaska to New Delhi...
...their machines. Jack & Heintz associates are also permitted to smoke, receive a dole of free doughnuts. They get one free hot meal per shift, unlimited free vitamins. They even have free vacations, which are apparently spent dancing the hula-hula in straw skirts on a sun-drenched isle off Florida...
This blast, one of many against conscientious objectors, was uttered during World War I by General George Wood Wingate of New York City's Board of Education. The first 19 months of U.S. participation in World War II have seen more tolerance of pacifists. But last week Florida educational authorities were comparably steamed up about a c.o. teacher. The blast came from Florida's R. P. Terry, member of Dade County's School Board. Last week he got the Board to order the trial of a c.o. for incompetence. The accused: Edward O. Schweitzer, science teacher...
...Miami Herald, on the other hand, advised Schweitzer's dismissal, though expressing respect for his convictions. Terry's co-Legionnaires at the hearing expressed no respect. Florida's ex-Vice Commander Al Lambert wanted "redblooded teachers." Miami Beach Post Chaplain Elmer Warren darkly declared: "Dade County is on trial here...