Word: nevada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late for mention in the annual report was news of Banker Giannini's latest excursion out of his native California across the Sierras. Last fortnight Transamerica announced that it had purchased Nevada's biggest bank, First National of Reno. Nevada is as short of banks as it is of rain. It was the first state to declare a moratorium during the Depression-Nov. 1, 1932, day after it celebrated the 68th anniversary of its admission to the Union. No banks have failed since but a tottering chain of twelve institutions, owned by George Wingfield, oldtime gambler and mining...
Founded in 1862 three years after the fabulous Comstock Lode was opened in Nevada, the San Francisco Mining Exchange was the vortex of a feverish speculative mining boom that burned the land or two decades after the Civil War. During the 1870's while the Floods, Mackays, O'Briens, et al. were plucking some $750,000,000 in gold and silver from the Comstock Lode, police guarded the portals of Mining Exchange as the public clamored to buy, buy, buy. Bodie was the favorite with Eastern investors and caused them more grief than any other stock...
...spectacle. As the roll was called the Senators strode in, grim and determined. Senator Hugo Black, the head of the committee investigating air mail contracts, sat in the front row. Other front seats were taken by other legal lights of the Senate-Lawyers King of Utah, McCarran of Nevada, Robinson of Arkansas, Borah of Idaho, Johnson of California. McNary of Oregon, Logan of Kentucky, Wagner of New York, Barkley of Kentucky, Norris of Nebraska, Hastings of Delaware. Most of them at one time or another had sat on State or Federal benches. For a moment they sat in solemn silence...
...President signed the District of Columbia Liquor Act. He also reappointed all present RFC directors, and named Charles Belknap Henderson, onetime (1918-21) Democratic Senator from Nevada, to a vacancy on the RFC board...
...requirement that in States which have community property laws (Texas, New Mexico, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Washington, Nevada, Arizona) husband and wife must make a joint return on their community property...