Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...constantly. Mail poured in. Greeting visitors to the headquarters offices was Rear Admiral John G. Crommelin, who retired from the Navy in 1950 after being officially reprimanded for his part in the "admirals' revolt" against the B-36. After talking in Washington to Joe McCarthy, Crommelin went to Florida and, in consultation with General Stratemeyer, conceived the idea of the Ten Million movement. Now Crommelin bears the title of "chief of staff...
...contestant in the opening round of last week's Florida State Bridge Tournament was more cheerful than Frederick Bernard Snite Jr. True, he could not lift a hand to play his cards, because he was paralyzed, but he told the nurse who held them what he wanted to play. He saw the cards only by reflection in the mirror over his face. For 18 years and seven months, since he was stricken with polio, Fred Snite had been bound to an iron lung...
Fellow Alumnus. Soon, Fred Snite's comings and goings in his private mobile hospital (a converted bus) and by private railroad car between Chicago and Florida became commonplace. Then, with his devout Roman Catholic family and an entourage of twelve (a doctor, five nurses, a physiotherapist, two orderlies, two mechanics and a chauffeur), he made the pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes. From the Vatican came the Pope's personal blessing. Fred Snite saluted the Pope "as an honorary fellow alumnus of the University of Notre Dame," insisted: "I ask no miracle ... I came here...
...thorough check after a series of crashes. Three of the new 800-m.p.h. jets have crashed mysteriously, killing two pilots, including Britain's Air Commodore Geoffrey Stephenson, boss of the R.A.F.'s tactical school, who spun into the ground last week on a flight in Florida...
...since Reconstruction days had Florida elected a G.O.P. Representative. William C. Cramer came close in 1952 in the Tampa-St. Petersburg district, lost out only on the count of absentee ballots-and never stopped running. This time he made it. Hillsborough County (Tampa) is normally Democratic and has a population of 249,000-of whom only 33,890 took the trouble to vote. Pinellas County (St. Petersburg) is Republican. Its population is 158,000-and 61,000 voted. Result: a 1,600-vote edge for Cramer...