Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Florida. Senator Smathers announced that he would vote for Stevenson but would not campaign for him. Asked to introduce him at a forthcoming appearance in Florida, Smathers replied: "I would have to say that I do not agree with him on the tidelands oil grab, on the jail-sentence FEPC, and on gagging of the Senate." Meanwhile, a Florida politico petitioned the Democratic National Committee to unseat Richard Barker, Florida's national committeeman, because of his "lack of cooperation" in campaigning for Stevenson. Nevertheless, Stevenson seems to be ahead in Florida...
While wife Eleanor Holm was vacationing in Florida, Showman Billy Rose called the Manhattan police to his expensive Beekman Place house, flashed his property deed, then ordered private detectives to break the locks with a heavy screwdriver. When the doors were open, Billy, police and reporters made a brief inspection of the five-story building. About 90% of his "treasures," Billy announced after a solemn survey, had been "looted." Billy had been trying to get in ever since Eleanor locked him out last year. How could he keep up the insurance on his treasures, he wanted to know, until...
...started to move. One was Hamilton Fish, former Representative and tag line of Roosevelt's famous ban "Martin, Barton and Fish." He announced he would enter the New York Senatorial race on an amalgam of the American and Constitutional party slates. Other support blossomed in Florida and Connecticut...
Some spring day--it may not be next year--some baseball writer is going to go down to Florida and finally realize that the New York Yankees are the best team in the American League. Besides making a great deal of money in side bets the following fall, that young man--most old-timers are by now far too prejudiced--will warrant a very large promotion...
Largest amounts of scholarship aid this year fall in the following states: California, 23 men, $29,250; Colorado, 15 men, $12,220; Connecticut, 21 men, $10,500; Florida, 13 men, $8,850; Illinois, 34 men, $20,675; Indiana, 12-men, $9,100; Kansas, 13 men, $10,550; Massachusetts, 350 men, $169,801; Michigan, 16 men, $9,150: Minnesota, 23 men, $17,750; Missouri, 16 men, $11,300; New Jersey, 23 men $14,250; New York. 143 men, $78,730; Ohio, 63 men, $48,550; Oregon, 9 men, $7,200; Pennsylvania, 45 men, $29,800; Rhode Island...