Word: florida
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...attempt to strengthen the primary system, Senator Smathers of Florida has proposed a Constitutional amendment that would eliminate the convention system of selecting Presidential nominees and substitute direct primaries, to be held the same day in every state. Under the Amendment, each state would have a "nominating vote" equal to the number of Senators and Representatives the state has in Congress. Each candidate would receive in the primary nominating votes proportional to his popular vote in each state. The man with the most votes would be his party's nominee...
...states plan to create new medical schools. Others are expanding existing schools which grant degrees only in the basic sciences to regular four year colleges of medicine. These states include Massachusetts, Connecticut, California, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Florida, West Virginia, Mississippi, and Missouri...
Paul Douglas had in mind a bill he has introduced in the Senate. Its purpose: to encourage more presidential preference primaries in the states this year. But what the Illinois Senator and some others really want is embodied in a proposal by Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers: a U.S. constitutional amendment to establish national presidential primaries and abolish national party conventions...
...Roebuck went on to develop the Woodstock typewriter, and later started his own movie projector company, sold out for $150,000 but lost his money in Florida real estate. He returned to Sears in 1933, at $5,000 a year, and toured the nation as a glorified publicity man until 1940, when he retired to California. He died, eight years later...
Duel in the Sun. In Los Angeles, the junior chamber of commerce received five battered umbrellas from the Miami junior chamber of commerce to aid its fight against "torrential rains," declined to use them because "the umbrellas went through Florida hurricane prior to shipment...