Word: sholtz
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First result of Mr. Hearst's tax blast were cordial invitations from Mayor Charles D. White of Atlantic City, President William A. Eastman of the Seattle Real Estate Board, Governor Dave Sholtz of Florida,* to come and live in their in-come-tax-free communities. Second result was an indignant clamor from Californians of high & low degree against Mr. Hearst s publicizing their income tax. State Assemblyman Ford A. Chatters, author of the new law, claimed that the State's Community Property Law would enable a man to split his taxable income with his wife and thus avoid...
...conclusion that no one was responsible for the failure to evacuate veterans on relief before last fortnight's hurricane killed 458 (TIME, Sept. 16). "There will be no indictments or recommendations of indictments," said he, bundling up his report and speeding it off by automobile to Governor Dave Sholtz at Jacksonville...
...With your write-up of Dave Sholtz in TIME, May 20, I am forced to take all articles in your magazine with a pinch of salt. You may think he is a wonderful man but the people of Florida wish he had remained in Brooklyn and we were free of him. We have had some sorry Governors but Dave is the worst...
Fortnight ago 7,000 irate Miamians assembled in a mass meeting to protest Governor Sholtz's ousting of State's Attorney N. Vernon Hawthorne, wired President Roosevelt that Sholtz was an "unworthy official, having lost the respect of the people." To Governor Sholtz was sent a stinging, 300-word rebuke: "The highest office . . . was not handed you to use for . . . vindictive purposes or to carry out secret . . . programs." Speakers-mostly clubwomen and attorneys-loudly whanged their Governor. When ousted Attorney Hawthorne was introduced as "the next Governor of Florida," the crowd yelled lustily...
Last week Governor Sholtz signed a bill reducing Florida's residence requirement for divorce from one year to 90 days. Its legislative sponsors had frankly termed it a bid for some of Nevada's 42-day and Arkansas' 90-day divorce trade. Said Governor Sholtz, a lifelong Congregationalist: "Florida is a tourist State, extending to the people of the United States an invitation to come here as visitors and remain as residents. If this bill brings additional residents or visitors to Florida, it will be in line with that invitation...