Word: nevada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nevada's sole Representative in Congress, nature-loving former Governor James Graves Scrugham. remembers seeing once, in the high Sierras, a mother eagle pushing her young one by one out of their eyrie over a sheer abyss, letting them flutter far earthward, swooping to save them just before they crashed, carrying them aloft to repeat the spartan experiment until they learned to fly. Representative Scrugham, a fairly New Dealish Democrat, was unopposed for renomination in last week's primary, will fight it out in November with Republican Harry Stewart, former mayor of Reno. But the Senatorial race...
...California, Nevada, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Utah...
...people, I suggest that they continue to work for a situation which will result in the people being given opportunity to vote directly on ... President Roosevelt and his policies. There can hardly be any doubt what the answer of the people would be."† ¶ Senator Pittman of Nevada: "I have inherent prejudices against a third term, but between Ickes and a third term, I'll take a third term...
...March 1, a Transcontinental & Western Air passenger plane took off from San Francisco, flew into a storm, disappeared. Three months later, Prospector H. O. Collier came upon its wreckage, strewn over a Sierra Nevada mountainside. The plane had been smashed to bits, but its tail had caught in a tree, hung high as a dead goose. The weeks of fruitless search for this and other lost planes have piled added horror on the original disaster, added worry and heavy expense for airline operators...
Bowling along outside of Nevada, Mo., one night last week, a "Katy" (Missouri, Kansas and Texas) air-conditioned train ran over a skunk, got skunk into its air-conditioning machinery. Passengers were inconvenienced...