Word: floridas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quinn Martin-". . . the gentleman from Florida, Nebraska and Oklahoma looked and acted as if they were a long way from home and why the Devil did we ever agree...
...Governors of four states were sojourning in the city of Wall Street and Broadway, and by preference chose to spend their time and money on Broadway. They were present at the opening. The comedian Julius Tannen, informed of their presence, dragged them up on the stage. Governor Martin of Florida, a broad-shouldered young husky, was first up, trying to look beneficent. Governor McMullen of Nebraska followed, very serious, worried. Governor Trapp of Oklahoma was grandiose in evening clothes. Governor Smith of New York was last up, grinning and apparently finding it great sport-being more used to such manners...
From South Carolina and Indiana, from Minnesota and Oklahoma, from Wyoming and Maryland, from Iowa and Vermont, from Florida and Nebraska, from nine other states.† 19 Governors assembled. In addition, there were the Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island and a personal representative of Governor Richardson of California...
Colombia. For the third time this year the volcano of Galeras, near Pasto, opened its mouth and spewed rocks, ashes and other red-hot debris over the countryside. Great flames soared heavenwards. News from La Florida and Sonsaca, nearby towns, was interrupted. Fear was expressed that they had been destroyed...
...Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Minnesota are endemically affected. More than one-third of the states of the U. S. have, from time to time, recorded cases. Massachusetts provides state institutional care for lepers. It is almost impossible for leprosy to spread in the climate of the Northern U. S. So slight is the danger of infection that the act of destroying the school effects of the young Newark lazars was rather a sop to Nemesis than a scientific necessity...