Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third of the freshman Senators had been governors. Pennsylvania's Ed Martin, a rasping preacher of regular Republicanism, was one of the seven. Conservative Democrat Herbert R. O'Conor had been a vigorous two-term governor of Maryland; conservative Spessard L. Holland was a former Florida governor. The G.O.P.'s liberal wing added popular ex-governors Ray Baldwin of Connecticut and Ed Thye of Minnesota...
Minutes later, the girl was talking to the desk sergeant in the Palisades Park jail. Name: Susan Bower; age: 20; home: Bozeman, Mont.; possessions: $14; last address: Bangor, Me. (where she had been digging potatoes); present occupation: hitchhiker; destination: Florida...
Last week, 34 days after she flagged the wrong driver, Bergen County admitted that Susan Bower had a right to keep her mouth shut. Turning down all offers, "Susan" put on her dungarees, pocketed her $14, and set out for Manhattan. Later, she said, she would hitchhike to Florida...
...through his mirror). In Miami he is a constant spectator (and bettor) at jai alai games. His favorite sport: bridge, which he plays almost every night with his wife and friends. An expert, with a rating of three master points, he plans to compete in the national championships in Florida this winter...
...Florida's all right if you can keep from catching a sailfish and going to the expense of having it mounted...