Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate's oratorical display was not enough to keep the galleries from emptying. After Idaho's Borah and Nevada's Pittman had fired the opening rockets against and for repeal of the arms embargo, the rest of the show was anticlimactic. Two days later bulbous Tom Connally of Texas, his wavy grey locks disheveled, roared for repeal for two hours and 45 minutes. For two hours and three minutes Michigan's Vandenberg played hard for his stake in 1940 (TIME...
...Congressional debate was of little or no importance. The Washington public stayed away from a mere set of written speeches; waited for the sparring to come when such phrase-fisted boxers as Missouri's Clark and Montana's Wheeler clash with South Carolina's Byrnes and Nevada's Pittman over the bill itself...
...former Klondike Gold Rush lawyer named Key Pittman was primarily responsible. Nevada's Pittman, a tall slender gentleman with a discriminating tongue for fine old whiskey and a talent for bumming cigarets from reporters, has one prime faculty-an ability to keep his mind's eye focused on the ice-cold political realities...
...furlough" must go 56,500 of Ohio's 166,700; 62,200 of Pennsylvania's 153,000; 22,900 of New Jersey's 67,900; 22,400 of California's 89,800; 11,200 of Alabama's 42,100; 400 of smallest Nevada's 1,600. About half will be replaced with other applicants. If the record of previously discharged WPAsters holds good, only 15% of the 650,000 will find private jobs; those who do will average $2.98 per week. The rest must crowd onto overloaded local home relief rolls...
...Snarled Nevada's irate Senator Key Pittman: Western lands "are rapidly becoming a barony of the dictator at the head of the Department of Interior...