Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grossed $25.7 million.) On Sept. 1 City Ice will retire all its preferred stock: $12 million worth, paying accrued dividends of $1.62½ a share. But record business also has brought fantastic demands. Frantic calls from iceless areas have required it to ship from California to Texas, from Florida to Texas, from Chicago to Mexico...
...class who have been here for more than one term are Oakes Ames of Cambridge, Jerome Edson Andrews of Andover and the Naval ROTC, William Brochie Foster of Milton and the V-12, Henry Martin Shine, Jr., of Los Angeles and the V-12, and H.E. Thurman of Jacksonville, Florida and the Naval ROTC...
This "ovation" for Franklin Roosevelt and Term IV lasted 36 minutes. Later, a Florida woman delegate rose to nominate Virginia's Harry Byrd for President. There were boos. On the platform, the gavel rapped firmly, and able Convention
...Actually Admiral Halsey is only 61, Admiral King 65. General Marshall 63. * Byrd's vote: the solid delegations of Virginia (24), Louisiana (22), and Mississippi (20); also scattered votes from Texas (12), Florida (4), South Carolina (3½), Alabama (2), West Virginia (1), New York (½). † In 1940 the President promised: "When [the next] term is over, there will be another President...
...Argentina the effect of these moves was not conclusive. Ambassador Armour's recall merely emphasized the fact that the Argentine Government had not enjoyed U.S. recognition since last February. Said the man-in-the-Calle-Florida: "What difference does it make? There's no recognition anyway." But the simultaneous departure of the Ambassadors of Peru, Paraguay and Chile (with others planning to follow) was a slap in the face for Argentine militarists...