Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago last week, Florida's bank clearings, construction, postal receipts, newspaper advertising, railroad traffic had rebounded so high that the State, by Governor Sholtz's proclamation, celebrated a holiday in honor of Recovery. This year Floridians have still greater cause for rejoicing. By final reckonings their biggest business, tourists, was best since the boom days of 1925-26. During the winter, 1,750,000 visitors, a quarter million more than last year, had spent $625,000,000. On horse and greyhound racetracks 2,000,000 persons had bet $36,500,000, up $7,500,000 from last...
...with neither a Michigan nor an Ohio committee named. He had decided meantime that the lieutenants of his political machine would, like Ku Klux Klansmen, be masked in secrecy. Reason, as explained by his Washington lobbyist, Louis B. Wrard: two friends had joined Huey Long at the Farmers' Holiday Convention in Des Moines (TIME, May 6), had thereby embarrassed Priest Coughlin by giving the impression that they were his ambassadors...
This futile finish to a dictatorship has always been one of the most effective arguments against this form of government. No matter how much of a superman the autocrat is, he and his followers must face the truth that death takes no holiday. Modern style dictatorship is distinctly a post-war phenomenon, and as a result, Father Time has not had the opportunity to show his long-suspected preference for democratic rule. Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, are all young men and very much in the saddle. Not only has their power just started, but they own their very positions in large...
Poles had just dismantled their elaborate snowplow equipment for the regular spring overhaul last week when suddenly the first May blizzard since 1685 overwhelmed Central and Western Poland with from six to 20 inches of snow. Canceled were all parades on the Polish National Holiday. Prosperous Poles went Maying in sledges piled with fur lap robes...
...bets made long before the race, at correspondingly long odds, and forfeited if for any reason the horse named by the bettor fails to run) on the Kentucky Derby. Tom Shaw had such a busy summer at the New York tracks in 1934 that he took a holiday last winter, handed over his winter book to his longtime assistant Frank Shannon. A few weeks before the race, an attack of indigestion that sent Tom Kearney to the hospital was front-page news in St. Louis. Last week at the first Kentucky Derby he had missed for 30 years...