Word: floridians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accepted the gubernatorial nomination in 1906, the Negro related, Colonel Green dropped out of politics except to return to Terrell to vote in each Presidential election. Said "Gooseneck Bill" McDonald of himself: "I quit being a Republican in 1928." When hearings moved to Miami last week, testimony showed that Floridians had tried without success to make the Colonel a Floridian. Said Colonel Green's onetime Star Island neighbor, Webb Jay: "He said he wouldn't consider transferring his domicile...
...successor to Francis Harmon, the Y. M. C. A. turned to China, picked a husky, genial Floridian named Eugene Barnett, founder of the Hangchow "Y" and for the past eight years in charge of all U. S. "Y" work in that unhappy nation...
...Pleased Floridian...
Like many another boom project, Coral Gables was an almost lifelong dream of a native Floridian. About the Century's turn a penniless, Nonconformist preacher left Cape Cod for the sake of his wife's health, setting out for Florida with his family and chattels in a horse & wagon. Near Miami he staked out a 160-acre grapefruit grove, named it Coral Gables, prospered enough to send his son George north to college. Son George Merrick wrote verse, won a short story contest, abruptly abandoned his literary career when his father died in 1912. Returning to Florida, he became obsessed...
...Durrance went also the somewhat more substantial satisfaction of winning two of the skiing events that are the Carnival's backbone. A Floridian who learned to ski in Germany, considered by Dartmouth's grizzled Coach Otto Schniebs the best amateur downhill skier in the U. S., Durrance won the downhill race-a precipitous mile down a mountain slide-in 58.8 seconds. In the slalom-zig-zag down a course outlined by pennants in the snow -he wasted three seconds going back to round a marker he had missed, and finished third. At jumping, judges thought his teammate Henry...