Word: nevada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there such a narrow (90 in.) width limit. Most U. S. trucks are 96 in. wide, though Rhode Island and Connecticut permit 102-in. widths. South Carolina allows a maximum length of 35 ft. Length in other States varies from 27 ft. in Tennessee to 60 ft. in Nevada...
...midst of a Senate squabble on the Housing Bill, Nevada's spare Key Pittman, Chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, rose to answer the charge made day before by California's Hiram Johnson, a fellow committeeman, that the U. S. "had no foreign policy." Mr. Johnson advanced the theory that the State Department's protestations of peace were at odds with the President's threat of "quarantining" aggressor nations. In his Chief's defense, Senator Pittman declared: "When the President of the U. S. first entered office he announced what I consider the fundamental foreign...
Lucile Watson is wondrously wise and imperturbable as the mother with career and past. Violet Heming is duly volatile and saccharine as a sister-in-law who is a pioneer in another field; that of making annual pilgrimages to Reno, Nevada. Nicholas Joy is perfectly suave and self-possessed as the ex-Communist poet. Haila Stoddard, making her debut in the part of the darling daughter, proves herself a highly capable actress and creates great expectations...
This seemingly fruitless meeting was not, however, the beginning or the end of the President's conferences last week with and about Business. He also lunched with Bernard M. Baruch, also conferred with three utility executives, John Carpenter of Texas Power and Light, A. B. West of Nevada-California Electric, Daniel C. Green of Central & South West Utilities. But the most important conference of his week waited till one noon when two taxis pulled up at the White House spilling out as oddly-assorted a group of U. S. figures as ever called upon a President...
...sand-bitten old Clark Alvord prospected in the sere Nevada hills, trudged the desert studying Indian lore, managed the post office and a general store in the desert town of Nelson (pop. 17). By night he liked to write friendly compliments to his favorite film star, Marion Davies, whose pictures he frequently drove the 40 rough miles to Las Vegas to see. Fortnight ago Prospector Alvord died, and last week his will was read. To his kin went 45% of his estate, to Actress Davies the rest. The estate: $1,000 cash, money due him on a $9,000 mining...