Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Florida, post-convention switches in political allegiance produced a high-level standoff. After resigning as Palm Beach County Republican committeewoman, Mrs. James Dinsmore Tew II last week announced that she planned to campaign for Adlai Stevenson and "never felt stronger about a candidate in my life." The same day Mrs. Bessie L. Boyd announced her resignation as Democratic committeewoman from Dade County (Miami). Said Mrs. Boyd: "We need a change in Washington...
Going Fishing? This was, in general, the way the Democratic nominees and platform have been received throughout the South. In John Sparkman's Alabama and in North Carolina, there is no serious Democratic resistance, but the enthusiasm is limited. In Georgia, Florida and Tennessee, party leaders accept the ticket, but with little...
...coming election, Sparkman will be doing well if he adds 2 or 3% to the Democratic vote in the South. But that small percentage may be extremely useful. For there may be some close fights in a number of Southern states-particularly Texas, Virginia and Florida-and Sparkman's continual search for an angle here and a formula there may help to reunite a divided party...
Mass Experimenters. The greatest architectural experimenters of all were the builders of modern houses. In the '20s and '30s, most modern houses were little more than white plastered blocks with flat roofs, glass-brick walls and skillfully built-in ugliness. Today, modern houses from Maine to Florida and California are built to please the eye. Comparatively, the number of such houses being built is small, only about 210,000 since war's end and only about 10% of the 1,100,000 houses being built this year. Nevertheless, they have influenced the traditional styles of the mass...
...physical and spiritual burdens of his friends. Last November he began hinting that it was time for him to leave the world. As the weeks passed, the Master grew silent. He finished dictating his spiritual books. His last "little desire" was fulfilled, he said, when a disciple from Florida sent him some green coconut juice in March...