Word: floridas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could get." There was a small minority in opposition which wanted to recommit* the bill because a retroactive reduction was made in last year's estate taxes, but they were prevented from getting their motion before the House because only one motion to recommit is allowed and a Florida member beat them to it with a motion to recommit to have estate taxes entirely abolished. The House as a whole had no sympathy with the proposal to wipe out estate taxes, and voted down the motion with a chorus of ayes. This little maneuver was undoubtedly planned in advance...
...Florida, Republican leaders have espoused the cause of dividing the state into North Florida and South Florida. The reasons given for this dichotomy are that Tallahassee, the capital, is too difficult to reach from the southern part of the state; that the northern part of the state should not be taxed for the extensive improvements needed in the southern part; that the two parts are different climatically and industrially. The proposed dividing line would cross the state east and west from a point on the Atlantic about 40 miles south of St. Augustine, to the lower part of the Suwanee...
...What famed river would form part of the boundary between the proposed North Florida and South Florida...
Lately Hoff came to the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 18). Osborne looks out through his spectacles at some pupils he is instructing in a Florida school. Since landing, Hoff has done some running on indoor tracks that was anything but slouchy. Last week Hoff bethought himself of Osborne's talk and called him out to meet him, at the Knights of Columbus games in Manhattan next month, in an all-round athletic duel. Sportdom awaited Teacher Osborne's reply, hoping much that the joust might be but realizing the obligations that are a pedagog...
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. is a wealthy and energetic 27-year-old who has reported news for Publisher Hearst's newspapers, built up a news service of his own, built up three successful tabloid dailies in California and Florida. He has a considerable patrimony but may justly boast that his success is due not solely to that but to his name and his not inconsiderable journalistic talent...