Word: nevada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Idaho's Borah growled that he had got just two letters, both commending his vote for the "prevailing wage" amendment. Father of the fracas, Nevada's portly Pat McCarran, told reporters that of the 200 communications he had received, all save one were favorable...
...operates in 50 nations, has 1,000,000 voting members, believes it comes in contact with five times as many young women. For Miss Woodsmall the extensive journeying which will be her lot as general secretary will be no great novelty. She taught school in Nevada and Colorado, became a Wartime hostess behind the French lines and in Coblenz. Doing Y. W. C. A. work for eight years in the Near East, Miss Woodsmall became an expert on the status of Oriental women. She will attend a women's suffrage meeting in Istanbul next April...
...recovery argument is simple. The Legion has a table prepared by Congressman Patman of how much Bonus money would go into every state: New York, $221,000,000; Pennsylvania, $156,000,000; Illinois, $141,000,000; Missouri, $61,000,000; Georgia, $32,000,000; Maine, $12,000,000; Nevada, $1,771,846. According to the Legion, businessmen in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri, Georgia, Maine, Nevada would profit in direct ratio to the spendings of Legionaries in their States. The mathematical argument for the Bonus is less simple. In 1924 Congress figured that veterans were entitled...
Revealed as the holder of options on gold mining claims supposedly worth $149,000 at Mojave, Calif., was Nevada's Senator Key Pittman, loud champion of silver...
...delicate was the problem in the case of Rhode Island and Virginia. Eventually Nathanael Greene and George Washington were moved out of Statuary Hall; Roger Williams and Robert E. Lee remained behind. California has not made up its mind which son to keep there. Still unrepresented are Oregon, Utah, Nevada, Montana, Washington, North and South Dakota, New Mexico, Louisiana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska...