Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matter of Opinion. Other Southern states sent envoys to plead delay. Florida's Attorney General Richard Ervin quoted Isaiah: "He that believeth, shall not make haste." North Carolina's Assistant Attorney General Beverly Lake referred to an old case. "This court," said he, "allowed the city of New York four years ... to decide what to do with its garbage." Texas' Attorney General John Ben Shepperd drew a laugh by citing a public-opinion poll, which showed that 45% of sampled Texans are dead set on keeping segregation, only 14% favor desegregation. The same polling agency, said Shepperd...
...Graves can change his mind up to one second before the explosion deadline, but he has already given the word that sends between 30 and 160 aircraft up for blast observation and cloud sampling. The word has been flashed to the Strategic Air Command so that planes in Seattle, Florida and overseas can take off on related atomic surveillance missions. His word has warned the Civil Aeronautics Administration to keep planes out of certain areas across the continent...
...there were always plenty of wolves at the door. Mickey handled the money. Between dates, Pat testified, life was pretty routine: "I got up around 2, then we would make the rounds of nightclubs, and later go to after-hours places." When Mickey left on a trip to Florida, he farmed Pat out to Erica Steel, a sometime madam. Jelke's executive order to Erica : "Keep her busy." Then Pat and Mickey broke up. On the witness stand Pat, invoking the Fifth Amendment, refused to say whether she had worked as a prostitute in New York after Jelke ditched...
...Florida Democrat George Smathers says he is for the bill, but "I can think of a couple of little amendments I might propose." Delaware Democrat J. Allen Frear and Republicans Eugene Millikin of Colorado, Edward Martin of Pennsylvania and Ralph Flanders of Vermont are, at best, lukewarm toward the bill and at worst, bitterly opposed. Louisiana Democrat Russell Long is "almost ioo%" for the bill, but Nevada Republican George Malone is 100% against it. Other views...
...Dent Grant, granddaughter of President Ulysses S. Grant; in Sarasota, Fla. Prince Cantacuzene met Julia Grant, daughter of onetime (1888-93) Ambassador to Austria-Hungary Major General Frederick D. Grant, at Cannes, married her in 1899, and was divorced by her in 1934, spent his last years as a Florida bank executive and manager of agricultural holdings...