Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Florida State Attorney William D. Hopkins said the death of young Baker, whose grandfather amassed a $100 million dollar fortune on Wall Street and gave $5 million for construction of the Business School, "doesn't look like murder...
...shooting occurred on the vast plantation of Baker's mother where the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and other celebrities have been entertained. The plantation, located 12 miles north of Tallahassee, Florida, is a mecca for hunters...
...midmorning, despite a drizzling rain, one of the biggest crowds in Tallahassee's history was standing in front of Florida's steepled old state capitol. Democrat Fuller Warren, onetime farm boy from Calhoun County's peanut and sweet-potato country, was about to be inaugurated governor-belly laugh, handshake, campaign promises and all. The folks expected a good show. They...
...governor dived into the crowd which was gathered for the free barbecue-40,000 pounds of meat, and plenty of beans, cake, orange juice and Florida celery. He shook hands, posed for photographers, handed out chunks of cake, and hugged giggling women with democratic vigor. Then he went off to watch the parade, which had 127 floats, and bands, and herds of bathing beauties, many of them tossing oranges at the crowds...
That night he fought his way in & out of four grand balls-all of them so jammed that dancing was next to impossible. Everyone agreed that it had been a wonderful inauguration-everyone, that is, but a horde of newly appointed Florida colonels, who found that their new rank didn't even entitle them to reserved seats at such goings...