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Word: tampa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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University of Tampa is a small institution, eight years old. Recently its president, John Harvey Sherman, was surprised to receive a visit from Baron Edgar von Spiegel, a World War submarine commander, now German consul general at New Orleans. Their conversation had not gone far before it appeared to Mr. Sherman that the Baron had come to make a highly dishonorable proposal: that the university establish a German professorship with Nazi money, the professor and textbooks to be chosen by the Baron. Mr. Sherman ordered the Baron to get out of his office before he called a sheriff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Insult | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...American Hernando de Soto Exposition at Tampa he said, for the benefit of national neighbors to the south: "We purpose to heed the ancient Scriptural admonition not to move our neighbor's landmarks, not to encroach on his metes and bounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Vigilant Fisherman | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Fishing on Recreation Pier, St. Petersburg, Fla., three years ago, W. E. Ervin of Crawfordsville, Miss., dropped his eyeglasses to the bottom of Tampa Bay. Fishing from the same spot last fortnight, Angler Ervin fished up his glasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Partisan | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Arkansas peonage charges, the Scottsboro trials, the Herndon case, the Tampa trials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Speaking Likenesses | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

First Baptist Church Tampa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

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