Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Free Tests Sirs: In TIME, Feb. 15, under the heading "Great Pox," Nevada, together with three other States, is blacklisted for not affording free laboratory examinations to physicians in the diagnosis of syphilis and gonorrhea. To my personal knowledge our State Laboratory, which is under the control of the State University, has extended such service for the past 14 years and I understand, from reliable sources, since 1909. Last year 4,633 blood tests for syphilis and 1,130 examinations for gonorrhea were performed free of charge for the physicians of this State...
BYRON H. CAPLES, M. D. Reno, Nevada...
Last year, when the New Deal's appeal to "the underprivileged" was at its most ominous for people of "entrenched wealth," the First National Bank in Reno and the Nevada State Journal set out to promote Nevada as a sort of financial cyclone cellar. To a pedigreed list of 10,000 prospects they sent out a booklet in which the bank's former president, Governor Richard Kirman Sr.* presented to people of wealth sound fiscal reasons why they should become Nevada residents. Attorney General Gray Mashburn explained the simple legal steps required. And the booklet emphasized that "Nevada...
...last week, Nevada could claim about 500 prosperous "immigrants" to its tax-free Utopia. Aside from such wealthy men as Errett Cord, Caleb Bragg, Sam Harris and John J. Raskob, who became interested in Nevada mining before and during Inflation, the list of permanent newcomers included Major Max C. Fleischmann, director of Standard Brands, famed Santa Barbara sportsman; Lewis Luckenbach (steamships); Arthur K. Bourne (Singer sewing machines); the fourth Earl of Cowley, Christian Arthur Wellesley, who came for a divorce, stayed to marry and settle down with his favorite nightclub hat-check girl. When William Randolph Hearst threatened to move...
...climate Nevada cannot boast-hot & dry in summer; so snowy cold in winter that even the Governor gets out and shovels (see cut). And to its quick divorces it may soon have stiff competition: last week the Texas Legislature was considering an "emergency" bill to permit divorces after six weeks' residence. For Nevada's boosters, their State's chief asset, after low taxes, is its virginity. After they have talked about its transcontinental rail, plane and bus services; its cheap power from Boulder Dam; its natural resources of gold, silver, copper, zinc and lead, from comparatively...