Word: floridas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miami, Florida, the hotel town, the real-estate-boom town, the Nassau bootleggers' town, the rich Northerners' villa town, decided to have a $15,000,000 University of Miami. Among the incorporators so deciding were Realtor William Jennings Bryan, his daughter Ruth Bryan, James M. Cox, onetime (1913-15, 1917-21) Governor of Ohio. Last week, the incorporators announced their decision, at the same time revealing that they had offered the presidency to Dr. William Lyon Phelps, teacher of English at Yale for 33 years, Lampson professor there since...
...infringe upon the freedom of mankind's intellectual liberty had been cropping up all over the country lately-an anti-parochial-and-private-school law in Oregon (TIME, Mar. 30, SUPREME COURT), similar laws (defeated, however) in Alabama and Michigan, lukewarm efforts for an anti-evolution law in Florida, similar laws pending in West Virginia and Georgia, narrowly defeated in Kentucky and North Carolina, passed but repealed in Oklahoma. Tennessee's case, for all its levity of origin, was clean-cut. It iso- lated the issue of all the others. So "Rappelyea's razzberry" grew to mammoth...
...believe in evolution, while not a few states require by law that the King James Bible with its account of the creation in the Book of Genesis shall be read an taught. Similarly appalling is the list of states where anti-evolutionist laws like that of Tennessee are pending. Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, West Virginia, Arkansas, California, lowa, Illiginia, North Dakota, Minnesota, Oregon, and Arizona...
Extracts from his letter to a Florida editor...