Word: floridas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Riled by such insubordination President Hoover retorted: ". . . The appointive responsibility rests in the President, not in any organization. ... No longer shall public offices be regarded as mere political patronage. . . . The success of the Republican party rests upon good government, not upon patronage, and Florida will have good government so far as it is within my power to give it. ... I note your demand that the organization shall dictate appointments in Florida, irrespective of merit or my responsibility. I enclose herewith copy of a statement I issued last March [expressing a willingness to cooperate only with reputable Republicans in South]. That...
Angry Senators. Chairman Huston postponed to another day a cutting out of political underbrush in Florida. Instead last week he accepted an invitation of Senator Walcott of Connecticut to lunch at the Capitol where he met many a Republican Senator. Each brought the same grievance...
...learning to U. S. limitations. In the firm of McKim, Mead & White, where he spent his apprenticeship, he shared a draughting board with John Merven Carrère. They quit McKim, Mead & White and hung out their own shingle. Soon they had a commission from Henry M. Flagler, pioneer Florida exploiter, to build two hotels in St. Augustine, the Ponce de Leon and the Alcazar. Wide was the comment aroused by their romantic, freely adapted Spanish style. More commissions came and the rirm was established...
...Senator-suspect William Scott Vare, as yet unseated because of allegedly fraudulent election (TIME, Dec. 19, 1927 et seq.), left Philadelphia for Florida where he will oversee repairs on his storm-damaged home at St. Lucie...
...night, Chicagoans may be reminded of another design, just as elaborate and colorful but more serious and a million times as big. To sketch this second design adequately requires a good-sized map of the U. S. The sketch can begin almost anywhere-on the coast of Maine, in Florida, or at the bottom tip of Texas. There is an irregular quadrilateral of it in North Carolina. A vast, nearly solid mass of it spreads east, west and south from Chicago. There are patches of it in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri. It almost blots out New Jersey and New Hampshire, parts...