Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Protesting the charge of the National Indian Association that Nevada's Piute Indians had held a "terrible orgy'' at Yerington, drunk "all the liquor they could get," followed it with the anti-freeze from their cars, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt resigned as honorary vice president...
Staked by two hard-pressed prospectors m the winter of 1935 in Nevada's Slumbering Hills northwest of Winnemucca was a gold claim now known as the Jumbo Mine. For $10,000-$500 down-the Jumbo was sold a few months later to one George Austin, a grizzled oldster who ran the hotel and general store in a nearby flag stop called Jungo on the Western Pacific". Jumbo ore assayed as high as $1,495 per ton. Other members of the Austin family staked adjoining claims, signed an agreement among themselves not to sell out except as a group...
...land, come August, the 4th Army, consisting of the troops in the 7th and 9th Corps Areas (7th-Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa, Nebraska, Arkansas, Kansas and most of Missouri; 9th-Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Nevada. California, the Territory of Alaska, most of Wyoming and part of Arizona) will attack, counterattack, fire off blanks and gas shells into each other's faces and test a theory that a division should consist of 13,000 men instead of 22,000 now that the U. S. army is becoming mechanized & motorized...
...There were some women, a few children, but for the most part only men, able-bodied men in their working years-more than one might find by rounding up the entire adult male population of Bridgeport, Conn., or Nashville, Tenn., or Long Beach. Calif., or the whole State of Nevada. If it was a mob then Detroit was seeing the biggest industrial mob scene* in modern U. S. history. The crowd milled quietly but listened too as, in a hoarse droning roar from the loudspeakers, Homer Martin breathed defiance in all directions...
Sirs: I have long been unaware of the major assets of Nevada even though I passed through at one time I notice you have a report of my passage in the March 8 issue-"The first white man to enter Nevada passed on through"-"most important people passed through." Since the Senate has resolved to attract a more substantial citizenry I, and the other members of my profession, will find it exceedingly difficult to reject such a hospitable invitation. Perhaps we could be induced to hold our next annual convention in Reno...