Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first white man to enter Nevada passed on through. That was in 1775. Most important people who have entered Nevada in the 162 intervening years have also passed on through. Last week in Carson City, smallest of State capitals (population 1,596), Nevada's Assembly seconded its Senate in a resolution designed to attract more substantial people to Nevada more permanently...
...joint resolution called for repeal of that portion of Nevada's Constitution which prohibits lotteries. When young Assemblyman J. E. Sweatt of Washoe County arose to argue against it, the measure's friends called him a "long beard." When he returned to the attack wearing false whiskers (see cut), they silenced him by voting to have any legislator with a beard of more than six inches taken out by the sergeant-at-arms and shaved...
...Because Nevada, in amending its Constitution, observes an "ample interval of deliberation" as urged by Theodore Roosevelt, and requires passage by both houses during two successive sessions of the Legislature (it meets in odd-numbered years), and then submission to popular referendum, Nevada's lottery project was not imminent last week. By 1939, when Nevadans may vote on it, present public opinion may have changed...
...behind last week's horseplay was a perfectly serious and, for the U. S., unique project sponsored by Senator William Marsh of Tonopah and Assemblyman Pat Cline of Las Vegas. If Nevada's Constitution is amended, they will introduce legislation to create a state lottery monopoly, to produce a million dollars a month for division between the State and lucky ticket holders. The State's share will, its sponsors promise, permit abolition of all State taxes...
State lotteries have before now been proposed in such august U. S. Legislatures as the General Court of Massachusetts, and died aborning. But Nevada is not Massachusetts. Nevada is a thinly populated State where easy divorce, open prostitution, licensed gambling and legalized cockfighting are only the more luridly publicized manifestations of a free & easy, individualist spirit deriving straight from the mining camp and cattle ranch. Realism is lent to the prospect of a tax-canceling State Lottery by the fact that Nevada has already launched an arresting promotion campaign calling attention to itself as "One Sound State" which...