Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Arrested in Kobe was Mark A. Pierce, a substantial citizen of Los Angeles and onetime police commissioner, on a holiday in Japan. As his tourist ship was sailing through the Inland Sea, a detective had seen him taking photographs, which when developed showed a passing warship. He was severely questioned ten hours a day for eleven days, taken to a hotel at night. Japanese police thought they had hit on something real when they found in Pierce's baggage a scroll showing that Mark Pierce is entitled to be called "Colonel" in the State of Kentucky. Other suspicious facts...
...Arrested at Kagoshima and held overnight was an Australian woman named Gertrude Edward Snyder, who had made a practice of wandering off the beaten tourist track in the Japanese back country...
...cruise was that the worst charlatanry was exhibited not by dragoman guides but by Greek and Roman priests, in charge of holy spots whence their Churches derive substantial revenue. It was bad enough, wrote Dr. Morrison, that after 20 centuries and repeated destructive battles in Palestine a tourist should be expected to believe in the continued, known existence of Christ's tomb, the manger in which he was laid at Bethlehem and the very hillside on which the shepherds slept that night. But it was downright "fantastic" to be told by a Franciscan in "Mary's house" that...
...sure, wrote Editor Morrison, a guide occasionally "throws in the qualifying clause, 'Tradition says-,' but this interpolation is never emphasized. . . . Consequently the uncritical tourist comes out of Palestine with his mind cluttered with pious superstition." Furthermore: "To have Christianity presented to these tens of thousands of casual sightseers every year in an incredible and repugnant form will have consequences in our own country." Dr. Morrison's suggested remedy: let the Jerusalem Y. M. C. A. which is less Fundamentalist than other Protestant institutions in Palestine, take the lead in "guiding travelers . . . without provoking them to a mood...