Word: nevada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie of Nevada, driving to work at the Capitol, found that his automobile was not functioning properly. He telephoned a garage, ordered repairs, arranged that the garageman was to leave another automobile for his use. When he was through for the day, Senator Oddie went to the Capitol Plaza, picked out a shiny new Packard sedan, drove home in it. Next morning at breakfast he read in the newspaper that the automobile of his Democratic adversary, Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri, was being searched for by the police. That, thought Senator Oddie, was too bad. When...
Besides the things physical of the uni versity he must become quickly conversant with the facts which represent Illinois in the realm of scholarship and science. When he, with his wife and daughter, takes up residence in the president's house on Urbana's Nevada street next autumn, he will meet Professor Samuel Wilson Parr of the Chemistry department. It is to Professor Parr that Illinois chemists turn for solace and inspiration in chemical experimentation. More important than his own work in the chemistry of coal, is the part Professor Parr played in encouraging the sort of research which ultimately...
...Arizona, Delaware. Nevada. New Mexico, Wyoming...
...upon the significance of the Massachusetts by-election, predicted, among other things, that: the State would elect a Wet Democratic Senator and perhaps Governor next November; it would vote to repeal its local Prohibition enforcement law-a wet step toward defeating the 18th Amendment already taken by New York, Nevada, Wisconsin, Montana, Maryland; the November Congressional elections would disclose an economic unrest in the tall grass, due to industrial depression, far deeper and darker than G. 0. Politicians now dare admit...
...this week, at Los Angeles, the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control will conduct a Western States Conference on Birth Control & Population Problems, to whip up interest in the national campaign among people in Oregon, Washington, California, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico...