President, the Miami Herald. 1972 campaign chairman. 1974 president. 1975 chairman of the board.
Chairman of the board, Royal Castle System, Inc. 1965 campaign chairman. 1968 United Fund chairman to the board.
Pilot Gustave Julius Ekstrom flew with Pan American for many years. Ekstrom was born August 18, 1895. When he was 19, he went to a Curtiss flying school that charged a dollar a minute. He went on to join a flying circus. During World War I, he instructed pilots in Princeton, N.J., and then served with an AEF infantry division in France. Ekstrom did more barnstorming in the early 1920s. In 1925, in Daytona Beach, he flew for the small East Coast Airways and wrote for the Morning Journal and the Daytona Beach News. In 1928 Ekstrom was official pilot for Senator Arthur G. Spear of Portland, Maine. Also that year, Ekstrom helped Curtiss open Miami
Written by Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Elizabeth Virrick
Written by Virrick for Georgetown University, delineating suggested curriculum for A.A. in Urban Service Aide
Includes essay by Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Includes "Slum Clearance, Community Style" by Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Includes pictures of the Miami Herald building, staff operating machinery, etc.
Edward Leedskalnin was the creator of Coral Castle, a massive display of stone sculpture and engineering executed solely by Leedskalnin and located in Homestead, Fla.
Rock Gate was constructed beginning in the 1920s by Edward Leedskalnin, who lived in it and operated it as a roadside attraction. In the late 1930s he moved its pieces from Florida City to its present site in Homestead. After his death in 1931, the property was sold to Julius Leven, who hired Bodil Lowe to publicize the attraction. Lowe collected many of these affidavits as part of that publicity effort.
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Teacher, historian, and author Thelma Peters specialized in north Dade County, Miami and the Bahamas. She was active in the Historical Association of Southern Florida, 1940 until about 1989, and served as President of the Florida Historical Society, 1974-1976.
Businessman. Moved to Miami from Titusville, 1896. Manager of F.T. Budge mercantile store; postmaster; general manager E.B. Douglas Company department store; first president of the Miami Pioneers club.
Chads became controversial in the 2000 presidential elections. They are small pieces of paper that are punched out of ballots as voters record their selection at the voting machines. The irregularity of voting procedures in terms of counting chads became part of a protracted struggle between presidential candidates, Al Gore and George W. Bush.
The Harper family was primarily engaged in the cattle and rice business for three generations in Cuba. In the aftermath of the revolution they returned to the United States.