Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Florida's strongly pro-Ally Catholic Bishop, Joseph P. Hurley, put the issue to the U.S. in terms of America's moral standing before the world. He said...
...Hell. The situation had become almost a national scandal. The majority of the war-working U.S. didn't give a hoot for all the vacationers' sufferings. Rhode Island waxed so wroth over the stranded-tourist situation that its State Senate passed a resolution condemning Florida for withholding gas for return, trips. (Rhode Island's Governor J. Howard McGrath canceled a hard-won reservation at Miami Beach's swank Roney Plaza...
Simply everybody was in Florida, it seemed. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. escaped easily, returned to Washington with tan and plans for the next War Bond Drive. Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague kept an eye on the horses at Hialeah. Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly popped in & out again. Ex-Ambassadors Joe Davies and Joe Kennedy were at their Palm Beach houses, as was ex-Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles. Grover Whalen was down for a couple of weeks. President Alfonso López of Colombia suddenly left for home when he heard that the Colombian...
...Beverly Hills. At Palm Beach were James H. R. ("Jimmie") Cromwell, busy Extramen Randolph ("Randy") Burke and Alastair Mackintosh. Lily Pons, Jeanette MacDonald were at Miami; so was Broadway's Choo Choo Johnson. Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell, whose work often takes him to Florida in the winter season, went on writing columns denouncing other people's interference with the war effort. Ranking victim of the transportation squeeze was wealthy Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, "Queen of Palm Beach Society," who was desperate for lack of a train reservation to the nation's capital. Her daughter, Washington...
...close to 500 m.p.h., with their guns blazing. As they pulled up at the end of the field a burst of ground flak caught the Major's plane. Red flames began to lick out behind as he fought his way back up to altitude. Then Beckham's Florida drawl crackled through the interplane radio...