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From this whopping start, George Wingfield went on to become the biggest bigwig in Nevada, Nixon went to the U. S. Senate, and when he died in 1912 Wingfield was appointed to succeed him. He declined the job. Unlike John Mackay, George Hearst, William S. O'Brien, who also made fortunes in Nevada. George Wingfield did not emigrate to another State. Presently he owned twelve banks, a chain of gambling halls, many mines, a string of race horses and two Reno hotels, the Riverside and Golden. Potent in State politics, he became popular by his generosity in grubstaking ranchers...
When Depression came, George Wingfield set out to keep it out of Nevada. His banks lent millions to ranchers, took mortgages on thousands of head of cattle. Presently this credit structure grew so top-heavy that it needed only the drought of 1930-31 to topple it. On Nov. 1, 1932 came a twelve-day State bank holiday and the twelve Wingfield banks never reopened. According to the RFC bank examiner it was "the most honest failure I have ever seen." Of some $4,000,000 loaned to ranchers, the banks got back only $200,000. Of their...
...Arizona, Wyoming, Nevada, Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, the Dakotas...
...debate, it had approved one, to give merchant seamen whose certificates are suspended the right to appeal to the Secretary of Commerce, which had already been enacted. An even better indication was that, after the non-controversial bills were passed, only about 20 members were on the floor when Nevada's Patrick A. McCarran stood up to introduce the modest Court Bill that was the ghost of Franklin Roosevelt's high-flown plan to enlarge the Supreme Court. Senator McCarran was followed on the floor by Vermont's Austin and then by Illinois' Lewis who attacked...
Divorced. Mrs. Sylvia Patricia McCarran Breckenridge, 18, daughter of Nevada Senator Pat McCarran; from John D. Breckenridge, 22, onetime sergeant of Washington, D. C. police; in Virginia City, Nev. They eloped and were married...