Word: tampa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks 63,000 passenger automobiles from other states poured into Miami. One day last week while blizzards were freezing the North 75,000 people baked on Miami Beach, three times the peak number reported in 1926. There, too, 45,000 visitors filled all available accommodations. In Tampa Barren Collier's hotels, Floridan and Tampa Terrace, were 85% full, reopened their main dining rooms closed all last year. Visitors were warned not to go to Palm Beach and Miami unless they had reservations. The best hotels, all full, were charging...
...months ago at Tampa, Fla., Federal Judge Alexander Akerman made national news when he removed a handful of feathers from the Blue Eagle's tail by refusing to enjoin a dry cleaner who had violated NRA's minimum price agreement (TIME, Dec. 11). In Judge Akerman's opinion, the cleaner was not engaged in interstate commerce and therefore Congress, through the Recovery Act, had no power to regulate his business. If Congress claimed such authority, observed Judge Akerman, the Constitution would be voided and anarchy would ensue. NRA's power and prestige saved its face when...
Same day in Tampa, Federal Judge Alexander Akerman handed down a decision that clipped the Eagle's talons. Several cleaners and dyers joined in asking a court order to restrain Samuel Bazemore of St. Petersburg, Fla. from advertising prices in what is known in the South as "pressing clubs," lower than those in force in that trade area. The Judge refused the order because: 1) only the Federal District Attorney has authority to appeal to the courts for enforcement of the Recovery Act; 2) Samuel Bazemore was admittedly not engaged in interstate commerce and Congress therefore had no constitutional...
Fiorello Henry LaGuardia has indeed had an explosive career. Born on Manhattan's Varick Street 51 years ago, he grew up at Army posts. His father, a bandmaster, died of embalmed beef at Tampa during the Spanish-American War. When he was 20, Fiorello got into the consular service, serving at Budapest, Trieste and Fiume. A row over immigrant inspection sent him back to Ellis Island, where he was interpreter until 1910, when he began to practice law. He went to Congress on the Republican ticket in 1917, took a leave of absence when the War broke...
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