Word: palatka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he visited his home town, Palatka, as Florida's only admiral son, they gave him a big picnic. The Mayor spoke, praising Calhoun as Palatka's first citizen, greatest man. (Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell. U.S. Commander in China, also a Palatka son, had not yet gained fame.) Bill Calhoun, listening to the Mayor, began rocking with laughter. "Why are you laughing. Willie?" the Mayor asked. "When I was last here," Calhoun chortled, "your old lady was my schoolteacher.' When I went away she said, 'Willie Calhoun, you'll never amount to anything...
Ignored during the campaign by both Presidential specials, publicity-loving Floridians consoled themselves with a sevencar special of their own last week. As backwoods crowds gathered by the tracks at Jacksonville, Green Cove Springs, Palatka, DeLand, Kissimmee, Tampa, they went aboard to see the candidates for their favor: four heifers, one choice feed steer, one medium steer, one scrub steer, three dairy cattle, one big black Poland-China sow, eight pigs. Except for the scrub steer (brought along as a horrible example), all were sleek, handsome, groomed within an inch of their lives. Sharing their train were exhibits of various...