Word: nevada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down the main street of Yerington, Nev. (90 mi. from Reno) moved a small circus parade. Swaying gracefully on the head of an elephant leading the procession sat Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie. Perched upon a second elephant was Nevada's Governor, Frederick Bennett. Rocking on the hump of the show's lone camel came Lieut. Governor Morley Griswold. These three Republicans had come to town to campaign for reelection. Unable to compete with the circus, they had pocketed their speeches, joined the performance...
Your very accurate and complete story of Nevada's divorce facilities, p. 18, TIME of Sept. 15, must have been most interesting to the thousands of readers of TIME who have been granted a ''new freedom" by Reno's "Judgie" or who contemplate seeking freedom a vinculo matrimonii...
Apparently Nevada is not the only place where a divorce may be obtained expeditiously. I have just received "An open letter to lawyers and interested persons of the U. S.," from an Attorney and Counselor at Law, of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, entitled "How to obtain a divorce fastly and at low cost." According to this "open letter," one of the grounds of divorce in the State of Campeche, Mexico, is mutual consent. "In mutual consent cases, both parties may appear before the Court by power of attorney, without coming here. ... In non consent cases, provision for service to a conciliatory...
...involved in the affair, I might lose my temper. Mrs. Beery is a sick woman and has been under the care of an alienist for three years. She is subject to spells of sickness that affect her mind." Next day Mrs. Beery countered that she had been to Nevada with Cinema Director Raymond Wells on "purely a business matter." Added she: "Will you please ascertain what reward Mr. Beery offered for my discovery? If it is sufficiently large I will have myself brought in" at once." Mrs. Elizabeth Reeve Cutter Morrow, wife of the retiring Ambassador to Mexico and Republican...
Rising Sierra. Study of the records of eleven seismograph stations taken during an earthquake last Thanksgiving day in Nevada and California indicated that the Sierra region is rising, said Professor Perry Byerly, seismologist of the University of California. A comparison with recent material on Pacific Ocean disturbances showed a heavier granite formation in the Pacific region, indicated that the ocean bed is crowding against the lighter Sierra region, is shoving the mountains higher...