Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honorable and red-faced Mr. Pepper of Florida, dubbed "Senator" by fellow-students in the Law School during the early Twenties, sounded off last night on the state of the nation before mounting the speaker's rostrum at the Law School Forcm to talk about the state of the world. Today's Red Scare he terms "passing whim" and the current communications crisis has caused him to envision a possible "national authority to regulate utilities...
...America has a rendezvous with destiny and that destiny is with the United Nations," Florida's senior senator Claude R. Pepper told a packed Law School Forum last night, charging that the Administration's proposed unilateral action on aid for Greece and Turkey would all but ruin...
...Frank Chance died in 1924. Joe Tinker, last survivor of the famous threesome, is in Florida, recovering from a leg amputation...
Track Slow. All was not sunny at Sunshine Park. On opening day a handful of customers showed up. It soon became a financial rarity: a track that was losing money. And Florida's cloudy weather this cold winter did not help. Yet except for a few gyps who "hopped" their horses, the racing was about as honest as it is anywhere-and like the big tracks, under state supervision...
...always like to see Harvard boys riding in boxears," he noted gleefully as he flourished his nightstick. "They have such hard heads. Just the thing to keep me in practice for the Florida trade...