Word: floridas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Florida's Real Estate Boom has brought, it was asserted, a flock of quacks and irregular medical practitioners to that state...
...lease scandals. In 1924, calling dissatisfied farmers, radicals and socialists to his banner, he ran independently for President. He got over 4,000,000 popular votes and 13 electoral votes?Wisconsin's. His last year was spent mostly away from Congress, in quest of health in Florida...
Almost alone among the states, Florida has practised encouraging rather than penalizing capitalists through her tax laws. State income and inheritance taxes there have been forbidden by the Florida Constitution. Gloomy critics prophesied that the loss to the state from these sources of revenue would have to be made up by heavy taxes in other directions...
...acquired only from the state. Shorefront property holders have benefitted by millions through the present law, and for once they shivered slightly when the proposal was made to halt the present practise. But the proposed repeal was soon put into the discard by the triumphant clan of realtors; and Florida's record as a 100% Utopia for the wealthy has been preserved intact...
...American fruit expert, credited with having originated two of the best-known varieties of grapefruit and oranges in the world; in Deland, Fla. Aged 12, he came to the U. S., was adopted by two wealthy Baptist women, was converted. He inherited from these women an orange grove in Florida, began his experiments. He worked in seclusion, held prayers in his private chapel. Others benefited by his researches and Gong died a poor man. Said Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor: "The orange growers of the United States should build a monument to his memory, and doubtless they will...