Word: poinciana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands of contractors, ready for razing, was Palm Beach's straggling yellow 40-year-old Royal Poinciana, most famed of Florida hotels, largest frame building...
...Garden Clubs of America, arriving to attend the Palm Beach Club's annual flower show, were met by "the largest fleet of wheel chairs ever assembled" and trundled off to the conservatory of the Royal Poinciana Hotel, which had been remodeled to resemble the Piazza di Spagna in Rome. Palm Beach alone boasted the presence during the past fortnight of over 100 titled Europeans, including Major General the Earl of Athlone & the Countess of Athlone, Grand Duke Dmitri, Princess Anna Ilynski, Lord Forteviot and Baron & Baroness de Gunzbourg of Paris...
...Palm Beach season swung into its second week. Closed for the first time in 40 years was the Royal Poinciana, world's largest wooden hotel. The Breakers did a nice business at $26 a day. More shops were opened than at any time since 1929, but Best, Macy, Jay-Thorpe, Bonwit Teller failed to resume branches. Bradley's gambling hall was running full blast. One gamester was reported losing $170,000 one night, recouping it with $5,000 profit the next. Only two private palaces on Ocean Boulevard failed to reopen, those of the late James P. Donahue...
...Year's Day the President & guests attended services at the Royal Poinciana Community Chapel, spent an hour driving about Palm Beach in a borrowed car. Early next morning he boarded a train to return to Washington and the last 59 days of his term in the White House. ¶ With the President absent, the White House offices were cleaned and painted for his successor. Because of the President-elect's lameness, short ramps will replace steps at the side door of the executive offices leading to the White House and in the east end of the second-floor...
Died. Dr. George Morgan Ward, 71, president emeritus of Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla. (president 1895-1903, 1916-20), onetime (1903-12) president of Wells College, Aurora, N. Y., winter pastor at the Royal Poinciana Chapel of Palm Beach; of heart disease; in Palm Beach...