Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight over Montgomery Ward was turning into a free-for-all. Last week, while Challengers Louis Wolfson and Fred Saigh, former owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, jabbed away, Board Chairman Sewell Avery got a possible new ally. The candidate: Britain's Isaac Wolfson (no kin to Florida's Louis), chairman of Great Universal Stores, Ltd., a giant mail-order firm with 1,000 retail outlets in Britain and Canada...
...state controls. In Oregon, voters repealed the state law setting arbitrary prices at the doorstep and grocery counter, thereby sent prices down 2? a quart. Yet farmers are still collecting as much, or almost as much (10.9 to 10.2? a quart) as before, and consumption is headed up. In Florida, after voters failed to abolish their milk-control board, they brought pressure on the legislature for more consumer representatives on the board. In California, Safeway Stores, which preach firm prices for farmers and free competition among bottlers, are leading a campaign to throw out a state law that sets retail...
...Florida's Democratic Senator George A. Smathers, a counselor for the U.S. delegation, added to the consternation by declaring himself in "full accord" with Fulton. Henry Holland, State Department chief for Latin American Affairs, growled that "under our system [Fulton] has a right to say anything he wants." Peppery U.S. Ambassador James Scott Kemper poured oil on the fire by canceling the Congressman's invitation to a Rio embassy reception just as Fulton finished dressing for the party...
When the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation (TIME, May 24), some Manatee County taxpayers wanted to cancel their $1,750,000 school building authorization. Last week the Florida Supreme Court refused their plea, arguing that the new schools were needed and that it would take a long time to desegregate. Florida Justice Glenn Terrell said the U.S. Supreme Court decision was "a great mistake" and would "retard rather than accelerate" the removal of the inequalities that Negroes now suffer. He added: "To homogenize Topsy . . . and Mary who carried her little lamb to school is going to be slow and tedious...
...housewives who buy Yerby's slick melodramas of sex, sadism and violence know that their favorite author is a Negro. Nothing in his stories of strutting white aristocrats, swooning heiresses and yassuhing darkies would declare it, and jacket blurbs, noting that the Georgia-born author formerly taught at Florida A. & M. and Louisiana's Southern Univesity, leave it to the reader to know that these are Negro colleges...