Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...civilian political parties, the Fighting Service chiefs must remain dominant for some time to come. Incredible Pittman- That, quite apart from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United States of America might well take a rougher line with Japan was the loud thesis last week of Nevada's Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Senator, being about to excoriate Japan, handed out advance copies of his speech in Washington. Japanese correspondents slapped this on the cables, and Japanese editors unwittingly broke the release date. Thus, before Key Pittman opened his mouth...
...vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Conservation of Wild Life Resources, Nevada's Key Pittman sagely observed: "We of the legislative branch of the Government feel the necessity for support, moral and sentimental, of our constituents in every matter." Darling & friends scurried through corridors, in & out of bedrooms, buttonholing stubborn delegates, arguing the cause of union...
...Senator from Nevada continued, "There are only two alternatives for peace. One is adjudication of controversies between nations through the instrumentality of peace treaties. The other is by resort to arms...
...Charlie Chaplin, Helen Twelvetrees, Joel McCrea, Mrs. Frank Borzage, have become skiing devotees. At the University of California, three years ago, Alexander Hildebrand, son of Chemistry Professor Joel Hildebrand, was the only competent practicing skier. Now not only California, but University of California at Los Angeles. Southern California and Nevada have ski teams, plan to compete with those of the University of Washington which have long been among the ablest in the U. S. Snow trains, long an established convenience for city skiers in Europe, have suddenly become popular in the U. S. Started in Boston six years ago, they...
Great Britain, he explained, was the villain of international currency manipulation, but the U. S. would foil her. Said the Nevada Senator proudly: "It's a great game of poker in which the kitty wins and the public loses. There is no government in the world that can stand this asinine policy as well as the government of the United States...