Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small contingent of the West Coast boys are answering the call of the Rockies, but others are heading South. Messrs. McClelland and Howsie plan to investigate the wonders of Miami, after the build-up given, the little city by Florida's gift to the Supply Corps. Incidentally, we might welcome the aforementioned Floridian as Transportation instructor for the coming term. Glad to have you aboard...
...Florida, courtly Claude Pepper, who has industriously worked his way up from New Deal errand boy to New Deal advance man, fought four rivals for his seat in the U.S. Senate. Against Pepper the opposition threw all the New Deal symbols which Southerners like least: bureaucracy, OPA bungling, labor and Negro "coddling." ("Drastically below-the-belt mud-slinging!" cried Pepper...
Wealthy Administration-haters in Palm Beach spent an impressive amount of time & money reminding Florida voters that Senator Pepper is a typical, nationally known personification of New Dealism. New Dealer Pepper retorted by snuggling even closer to the President, charging his enemies with "hoping that by driving a dagger through my heart, it might reach a little ways into President Roosevelt." The chief Pepper rival, Jacksonville's Judge J. Ollie Edmunds, said boldly: "I am willing to stand up and be counted as a Southern Democrat." When he and others had stood up and been counted, New Dealer Pepper...
Hardy Perennial. Somewhere on the 2,000-mile road from Florida to Halifax, World War I Veteran Wilford Wright was making his annual health trip - by tricycle, as usual...
...right is Radio Starlet Florida Edwards, who won an $8,180 judgment against the Hollywood Canteen for an injury to her coccyx, suffered while dancing with a "jive-maddened" Marine. Her plight inspired Los Angeles Superior Judge Henry M. Willis to a judicial definition of "jitterbug." Said he: "The word bug is defined ... as a crazy person. The word jitter means extreme nervousness. This combination, therefore, approaches the description of one witness who said the jitterbug dance was crazy...