Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passenger traffic to Cuba. The Florida East Coast R. R. reduced its Key West schedule to one train a day and the Atlantic Coast Line cut its through New York-to-Key West sleepers down to two a week. Seatrains from New Orleans killed the Cuban freight business. The resort crowd drifted elsewhere...
Before departing for fun on the deep. President Roosevelt last week made a clean sweep of "must" jobs. Day by day he gradually waded through the big legacy of bills left by Congress. In his favorite frank way he announced that would resort to no sly pocket vetoes. Instead he wrote upon 31 private bills: "disapproved and signature withheld, Franklin D. Roosevelt."* Two important measures he did sign: the Farm Bankruptcy Act and the Railroad Retirement Act, which, in future, will cost the railroads some $60,000,000 per year to pension off their 65-year-oldsters...
...unwholesome taint hung last week over Brighton. The feminine mayor of this most respectable resort on the whole so-called "British Riviera" was almost frantic when embarrassed policemen broke the news to her. In the parcel room of balmy, blissful Brighton's sprawling railway station the headless, armless, legless torso of a woman had been found in a small trunk. Shrilled Mayor Margaret Hardy: "This case belongs to London! Nothing like this has ever happened before in Brighton...
While the Democrats were nominating Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire for the U. S. Presidency in June 1852, the Boston & Maine Railroad was casting about for some smart new way to advertise the candidate's home state as a summer resort. A bright young B. & M. passenger agent named Jim Elkins thought it would be clever to promote a boat race between Harvard and Yale on Lake Winnepesaukee. He persuaded New Haven friends to persuade Yale to issue a challenge which Harvard promptly accepted. The race was billed as "the marine contest of the ages...
Next day the old guard British parties denounced Sir Oswald for his foreign and un-British resort to force in founding a "private army'' instead of sticking to straight politics. Laborites accused the police of improper Fascist leanings and undue readiness at Olympia to arrest working-class hecklers. Over the weekend six Cabinet Ministers dignified British Fascism by making speeches against it. Keynoters: Minister of Labor Sir Henry Betterton: "The country must decide at the next election whether constitutional government will remain or be destroyed." Colonial Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister: "If the disaster of Dictatorship comes...