Word: florida
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gathered at a Black Power rally in a baseball park to hear Firebrand H. Rap Brown last week. Such open hostility was surprise enough for the youthful chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, but there was even more in store. Suddenly he found himself eyeball to eyeball with Florida's Republican Governor. Claude R. Kirk Jr., who had walked into the ballpark and up to the speaker's area at home plate...
Said Kirk, grabbing the microphone from Brown: "Welcome to Florida...
Kirk: "Mr. Brown, we welcome you to Florida. If you are here in good spirits, I'm glad you are here. Are you here in good spirits...
...Negroes to arm themselves, Kirk said afterward that he had not violated a two-week-old state law that imposes a two-year prison sentence for inciting a riot. Debate, said the Governor, "is our way of life. If Mr. Castro, who is only 90 miles away, comes to Florida, I'll debate with him." Asked if he thought Brown also was a Communist, Kirk borrowed one of Walter Reuther's old tag lines: "If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it must be a duck." Nevertheless, the Governor thought that Brown, a dropout...
...pioneer in the newsletter business, a onetime Associated Press Washington bureau reporter who in 1923 borrowed $1,000 to start a mimeographed financial and Government tip sheet for businessmen, gradually built his weekly Washington Letter to a circulation of 250,000, and added four specialized letters (tax, agriculture, Florida, California -combined circ. 50,000), along with a monthly Changing Times magazine (circ. 1,000,000), all serving up more-or-less inside dope written in the skeletal style of telegram English; of heart disease; in Bethesda...