Word: floridas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only Senators who voted against him were Heflin and Trammel (Democrats), Norris and Frazier (Insurgent Republicans), Shipstead and Magnus Johnson (Farmer-Laborites). Senators Wheeler and Walsh, both of Montana, asked to be excused from voting. With the exception of Messrs. Norris and Frazier (and Senator LaFollette, now in Florida for his health, but who, it was announced, would have voted against Mr. Stone), the Insurgent Republicans lined up with their Regular colleagues and with the bulk of the Democrats to settle the matter decisively in Mr. Stone's favor. Following the confirmation, Colonel Ownbey, a septuagenarian, announced: "I have...
...children lies in the clutches of grim death-to her master, arbiter of her destiny and, to her, as omnipotent in this crisis as fell Death himself, but all to no purpose. "His adamant heart did not melt. The master completed the transaction." Nepal is about the size of Florida, contains about 5,500,000 people and is an entirely independent country on the north frontier of the Indian Empire. The Maharaja is not a despot, as has been circulated in the daily press. The Government is in the hands of a military oligarchy, but all political power...
Another object of the expedition is to investigate the Sargasso Sea, a drifting mass of seaweed in mid-Atlantic, about the latitude of Florida and the Canaries and about the longitude of the Newfoundland Banks. It is only gradually being disentangled from the popular legend surrounding it, although Christopher Columbus himself ran afoul of it on his first voyage to America. It has been asserted that the weeds are so thick that they entangle whole ships which never escape...
...Secretary to the President. The guests included Secretaries Weeks and Hoover, Speaker Gillett, Senator Hale of Maine, Representatives Longworth and Madden, Commissioners Blair (Internal Revenue) and Burke (Indian Affairs), ex-Senator Sutherland of West Virginia, G. Logan Payne, Washington publisher. Afterward, Mr. Slemp departed for a vacation in Florida before resuming his law practice in Washington...
...East, the younger East, enjoys winter. . . . The older East detests it. It longs for Florida and California. And no wonder! What have they here to live...