Word: florida
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When Small Business Administrator Wendell B. (for Burton) Barnes, 45, was vacationing with his wife and four children near Jacksonville, Fla. a fortnight ago, Hurricane Carol began kicking up off the Florida coast. Right away, Barnes packed his family into the car and headed north. He reached his desk just in time. One of Barnes's major tasks is to make emergency loans in disaster areas. The morning after Carol smashed across the New England coast, Barnes declared disaster areas in six states (New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine...
...Florida court last week there was a different Fifth Amendment situation. Leo Sheiner, a Miami attorney and World War II chief counsel for OPA's milk, cream and ice-cream section, invoking the Fifth Amendment, refused to say whether or not he was a Communist. From Sheiner's refusal Circuit Judge Vincent Giblin drew conclusions that might help to clarify a lot of public confusion about what the Fifth Amendment is and is not supposed to do. Ordering Sheiner's immediate disbarment, Judge Giblin said...
Though strictly impartial, CQ has been used time and again to win points in political campaigns. When Florida's George Smathers (now a Senator) was running for Congress in 1946, he went through his district reading his opponent's voting record from CQ, and credits the publication with his victory. When Joe McCarthy recently charged that Senator Ralph Flanders voted less with the Republicans than any other member of the party, newsmen set the record straight with CQ figures...
...Additions. CQ, which started with 20 papers, grew with its reputation for accuracy. Soon, in addition to their weekly reports, the Poynters started putting out special news stories and features and an annual almanac. As CQ grew, the Poynters shuttled back and forth to Florida, where Nelson is now publisher of the St. Petersburg Times. With his new CQ publisher at work, Poynter will be able to spend more time on his Florida daily. Says Poynter: "Our mission is to try to bring factual order out of the controversy about Congress. There is so much emotion involved that one side...
...rumored up for sale. Colonel Robert R. McCormick's big, successful Chicago Tribune has lost almost 20% of its circulation since 1946 (latest figure: 877,636), and the inevitable rumors have been circulating. One had it that Publisher John Knight, whose string of papers stretches from Florida (Miami Herald) to McCormick's own Chicagoland (Daily News), was dickering to buy the Trib. Last week, in answer to a reader's question, the Trib flatly denied the rumors. Said an editorial...