Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Collins usually stops, as he did as a young lawyer 20 years ago, at a drugstore for coffee and a chat with the same friends he found there then. Once at his desk, Collins has to deal not only with today's Florida but with tomorrow's. He may have to attend a meeting of an agency that he sponsored, the Florida Development Credit Corp., to encourage the state's 234 banks to pool credit for new industries. Or he may hear, as he did recently, a report that a certain national corporate giant, deeply involved...
...after day, he deals calmly and skillfully with Florida politics, which carries into the atomic age the miasmic mist and the alligator snap of the deepest Florida swamp. The job keeps him busy. The other day, his 13-year-old daughter Mary Call asked him, "What's a lieutenant governor?" (the office does not exist...
...Florida). When her father explained, she remarked: "Since you've been governor, what we've needed is a lieutenant daddy." A Matching Program. Thomas Le-Roy Collins' grandfather, a circuit-riding Methodist minister, came to Florida from Texas around 1870, died in a pulpit near Tallahassee. The governor's father ran a small grocery, later a wholesale grocery business. He did not have enough money to send his children to college, but he promised to match, dollar for dollar, whatever they earned and saved. "He was years ahead of Roosevelt," says Governor Collins, who deals these...
...bought a business course at Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He worked two years as a teller for the Exchange Bank in Tallahassee, saved another $500 and bought a law course at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tenn. He finished the one-year course and passed the Florida bar exam with the second highest grade ever scored until then. "I came home," said Roy Collins, "boldly hung out my shingle-and proceeded to starve." Early in 1932 Roy spoke of marriage to dark-eyed Mary Call Darby, but there was a practical difficulty: "My law practice was earning me about...
...used to drink Dr. Groves's tasteless chill tonic by the barrel. I guess it was all that pulled a lot of us through. Well, when I became a legislator I got a chance to work for remedial legislation. Now there are doctors who have practiced in Florida for years and never seen a case of malaria. It's a good feeling to see results like that...