Word: balzar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Fredrick Bennett Balzar, 53, Republican Governor of Nevada, signer of his state's six-week divorce and legalized gambling bills; after a long illness; in Carson City...
Nevada last week celebrated the 68th anniversary of its admission to the Union. No celebrant, however, was lank Governor Frederick Bennett Balzar, onetime railroad conductor, onetime six-shooting sheriff of Mineral County. He was in Washington, D. C. begging the R. F. C. to lend Nevada $2,000,000. Most of the banks of his arid State were at an impasse. When the loan did not come through, Governor Balzar communicated with his Lieutenant Governor Morley Griswold. As a result of that communication, Nevada's 91,000 citizens awoke from their celebration to find' 19 of their...
...already becoming embarrassing to be pointed out ' as Reno's 'boy bishop,' Parents have always warned their children that they should be seen but not heard." He busied himself meeting and talking with his welcomers. Among them were Nevada's Governor Fredrick Bennett Balzar, California's Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., Reno's Mayor Edward Ewing Roberts, Justice Edward Ducker of the Nevada Supreme Court, onetime District Attorney William Boyle, Divorce Lawyer Patrick McHarran...
...commonwealths of Arkansas and Idaho having matched Nevada's go-day residence divorce law (TIME, March 16), Nevada last week went them 48 days?and then some?better. At Carson City, Governor Balzar signed a bill permitting divorce after a 42-day sojourn in the State, with the provision that grounds need not be specified unless the action is contested. Also he signed a measure legalizing old-time gambling. The new divorce law is effective May 1; the gambling law went in at once...
...front of the reserved seats at the circus ground, Governor Balzar's elephant suddenly turned upon the camel. The camel balked. Lieut. Governor Griswold lost his grip, pitched head-over-heels to the ground. The crowd cheered wildly. Declared Lieut. Governor Griswold as he brushed himself off: "I knew I should never have anything to do with a camel." (Nevada...
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