Word: nevada
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every man, woman and child in the U.S. and still have enough left to do a wholesale real estate business. If it were worth $100 per acre-which it is not-its sale would wipe out the national debt. It lies in 16 "public land" States throughout the West. Nevada heads the list, with the U. S. owning 75% of its surface territory. Utah is next with 47% U. S. ownership and Wyoming third with...
...notice in your issue of Aug. 12 that three things vividly associated in the public mind with the State of Nevada are divorces, silver and the Mackay family...
Three things which the public mind associates vividly with the State of Nevada are divorces, silver ore, the Mackay family. Divorce and the Mackay name were once "linked" in public prints, in 1914 when Mrs. Katherine Alexander Duer Mackay took the notion to leave her telegraph tycoon husband, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, and marry a surgeon named Blake whom she later divorced (TIME, Aug. 5). But that happened in the East. In Nevada, where the Reno divorce mill grinds exceedingly fast and the ways of women are an old story, the matter caused little comment. In Nevada the Mackay name rings...
Endow as he will, the present Mr. Mackay will never be able to give back to Nevada the color of its oldtime mining days, when his high-spirited mother, Marie Louise Hungerford (Bryant), widow of a shacktown doctor, ran a shacktown boarding house, married her Irish boarder and zoomed with him to riches indescribable. Today a Nevada "miner," before he makes his mark, is a smooth-faced youth in flannel or corduroy trousers (lately bell-bottomed) and a woolen sweater, with a stack of books in his dormitory room, instead of pick, pan and shovel. Instead of rip-roaring oldtime...
President of the University of Nevada is Walter Ernest Clark. He personally planned the science school which Mr. Mackay has now endowed with $500,000. In a way the endowment was a certification of President Clark's fitness for office. Last year a scandal-mongering element tried to effect his removal on the allegation that he did not properly protect the students' morals. Investigation suggests that the scandal-mongering originated from the stories of cynical divorce lawyers who have taken out of Reno tall tales of the university students "working their way through college by performing as rich...