Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Postal Guide lists others in Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas...
While all this was going on, Southern Democrats began throwing you alls into Mr. Mitchell's chowder. Florida's Senator Spessard Holland said he had declined an invitation to attend the dinner because he thinks the South will gain nothing there. Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd said he had not been invited. South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes said he would not go if he were invited...
...Republicanism is in evidence from the Keys of Florida to the mountains of Virginia. In Florida, Republican registration has increased more than 40% since November. In Louisiana, New Orleans Lawyer John Minor Wisdom's workers are getting Democrats' signatures on petitions to change Democratic registrations to Republican. In Georgia, State Chairman Elbert Tuttle has established the state's first full-time G.O.P. headquarters, and new party units are springing up all over the state. In Virginia, the G.O.P. thinks it has the chance of the century to elect a governor. "For the first time since the Civil...
...saying no more than that, Bohemia seemed to be telling the reader that there was actually a great deal more to say. Meanwhile, a circumstantial account of the incident flashed around Cuba and jumped the Straits of Florida to Miami, where exiled opposition leaders keep close tabs on their homeland, only an hour away by airliner. According to this account, detectives of the Cuban Bureau of Investigation swooped down on the cardinal's palace one night shortly after the rebellion had been suppressed. In the midst of a frenzied city-wide search for anti-Batista plotters, they had picked...
...West Coast last week, three weekly newspapers * changed hands. But they were an exception to a trend. Elsewhere in the U.S., scores of would-be buyers were hunting dailies or weeklies for sale-and hunting in vain. In Florida alone, one broker reported he had 25 buying offers, not one to sell. In Michigan, ex-Senator Blair Moody, who had lined up capital for a daily (TIME, Aug. 17), had not been able to find one to buy. The reason: newspapers in general are making fat profits, anywhere from 6% to 15% after taxes. Few owners want to sell...