Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Florida Democrats wanted Collins, a moderate in tone if not in substance, so much that they broke all records last week to give him 432,000 votes, a clear majority over the combined vote (400,000) of his five opponents...
...will have segregation in this state by lawful and peaceful means," said Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins, 47, as he campaigned his way through a gauntlet of bigotry set up by his rivals for the Democratic nomination for governor. "We will not have our state torn asunder by rioting and disorder and violence. If you want a governor who is going to seek to have white people hating colored people, and colored people hating white people, then you do not want LeRoy Collins...
Down to a poor fourth place went Fuller Warren, former governor (1949-53), who had proclaimed: "If race-mixing comes to Florida, there will result from it a mulatto race." Up to a poor second went White Supremacist Sumter Lowry, retired National Guardsman and popeyed patriot, who highlighted his first campaign by displaying a blown-up picture of his eight-year-old daughter: "Now what kind of a man would I be if I didn't fight for a little girl like that...
Aside from a debate trip to Florida in March and entry in the National Invitational Tournament at West Point two weeks ago, the Council this year sponsored three spring vacation tours. For the first time, the tours produced a profit for the Council treasury, as opponents paid $20 each to debate Harvard on "any topic and any side" they chose. One trip went to Houston, Tex., a second to the plain states, and a third to Minnesota...
...Allied Stores in the race for No. 1 spot among U.S. department-store chains. In an $18 million stock deal, Federated (Manhattan's Bloomingdale's, Boston's Filene's, Dallas' Sanger's) will take on Miami's Burdine's Inc., Florida's biggest (1955 sales: $42.8 million) department store, with four units in the state. In year ended Jan. 28, 1956, Federated, with sales of $537.7 million, was only $44 million behind Allied's pace, but now, with Burdine's, it is running almost even...