Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Southern oratorical chant. On the stump in Florida, he seemed tired and strained...
...terrible fight," said Senator Richard Russell of Georgia, resting briefly in Washington after a 2,245-mile campaign in the broiling Florida...
Russell won, 357,072 to 281,162, but in such a way as to underline the near-hopelessness of his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. His votes came from those parts of Florida that are still the South-from the piney woods, the swamps, the celery plantations and the cattle ranches. The other Florida-the big cities where ex-Northerners live-went for Estes Kefauver, who may have from four to seven of the state's 24 convention votes. Florida showed that Russell is the candidate of the South; outside the South, he has almost no support...
...days after his Florida victory, Russell's campaign got another boost-with another reverse twist that emphasized its hopelessness. Alabama's Senators Sparkman and Hill, who are Fair Dealers and not members of the Southern bloc, endorsed him. But in so doing they said: "He has always remained loyal [to the party] and may be counted on to do so in the future." In politics, this is like saying that the endorsee can be counted on not to steal a red-hot stove. Sparkman and Hill are not so much interested in promoting Russell's candidacy...
...intimate contacts with the man who handled the purchases, Clovis Walker, head of the cotton branch in the Production and Marketing Agency of the Agriculture Department. Walker had sent many messages to Mansour; some signed "Eula" had been sent by Walker's wife; others which referred to "the Florida situation" used some kind of code. Walker, who had listed his 1951 income as $17,000, explained this by saying that he had bought $50,000 worth of Florida land after selling off some Oklahoma farmland, and that Mansour was interested in buying an adjoining tract for a "nest...