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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year, when the New Deal's appeal to "the underprivileged" was at its most ominous for people of "entrenched wealth," the First National Bank in Reno and the Nevada State Journal set out to promote Nevada as a sort of financial cyclone cellar. To a pedigreed list of 10,000 prospects they sent out a booklet in which the bank's former president, Governor Richard Kirman Sr.* presented to people of wealth sound fiscal reasons why they should become Nevada residents. Attorney General Gray Mashburn explained the simple legal steps required. And the booklet emphasized that "Nevada...
...last week, Nevada could claim about 500 prosperous "immigrants" to its tax-free Utopia. Aside from such wealthy men as Errett Cord, Caleb Bragg, Sam Harris and John J. Raskob, who became interested in Nevada mining before and during Inflation, the list of permanent newcomers included Major Max C. Fleischmann, director of Standard Brands, famed Santa Barbara sportsman; Lewis Luckenbach (steamships); Arthur K. Bourne (Singer sewing machines); the fourth Earl of Cowley, Christian Arthur Wellesley, who came for a divorce, stayed to marry and settle down with his favorite nightclub hat-check girl. When William Randolph Hearst threatened to move...
...bittern (known officially as the "Spirit of the Schuylkill") was on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and with it something unique in the history of art exhibitions: every known surviving work by Sculptor William Rush. Preparing for the show for ten months, Curator Henri Marceau raised the list of known surviving Rush items from about 30 to 80, and though it entailed a raid on Independence Hall itself for a statue of Washington, all of them were finally made available for this week's show...
...birth of LIFE was not without its bright side for Publisher Bourjaily. Wanting only the old Life's name when they bought it. TIME Inc. sold Life's subscription list, features and goodwill to Judge, to which the U. S. comic monthly field was thus left wide open. Monte Bourjaily immediately stepped in and bought Judge from its printers (Kable Bros, of Mt. Morris, Ill.). Last week he was able to report that Judge's circulation was up to 252.750 to which he would for the time being add Midweek Pictorial's 32,750 subscribers, devoting...
...Santa Anita has been a bonanza for its backers, it has been even more spectacularly profitable, in the past week, for a young race horse owner whose stable has never before ranked high on the list of U. S. money-winners. A few days before Rosemont won the Handicap, William du Pont's Fairy Hill won the third Santa Anita Derby, one of the second richest U. S. races, on Washington's Birthday, for which the stake was $62,000 (TIME, March 1). It was the first time one owner had won both of Santa Anita...