Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What happened was simple. A year and a half ago the silver bloc in Congress, headed by Senator Key Pittman of silvery Nevada, passed a law instructing the U. S. Treasury to buy silver until the U. S. held one-third as much silver as gold in its reserves or until the price of silver reached...
Divorced, Floyd Bostwick Odium, president of Atlas Corp., $100,000,000 investment trust; by Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie Odium, president of Atlas Corp.'s swank Fifth Avenue department store, Bonwit Teller; in Minden, Nev. Grounds: extreme cruelty. Three days before her decree was granted in Nevada, Bonwit Teller gave a party for Mrs. Odium in Manhattan, to celebrate her first year as store-head...
...doing so, seemed treason to the most politically precious of metals. "I thought," said Senator Thomas, "that we had a silver policy. But we haven't any ? other than to buy silver at the lowest possible price." Next day Senator Thomas and his silver friend, Senator McCarran of Nevada, took their revenge. As the price of passing the tax bill (see p. 17) they got the Senate to insert a provision repealing: 1) the Treasury's authority to nationalize silver; 2) the tax of 50% on the profits of silver speculators; 3) the requirement that Government licenses must...
...According to President Percilla Lawyer Randolph of the Women Lawyers, it is common practice for a teacher to divorce her husband, keep on living with him. By working fast a teacher can go through marriage and divorce before her school board gets around to dismissing her. Said Felice Cohn, Nevada's only woman lawyer: "An appalling number of women teachers come to Nevada for 'convenient' divorces. Five of them came on the day I left Reno. Four of them told me they wanted such divorces. Most of them intend at some time to remarry their divorced husbands...
Though the money for modernizing the Comstock mines was reported to be in the hands of a "Raskob-Baruch-Pittman" group, both Nevada's Senator Pittman and Bernard Baruch denied any financial interest. However, the Silver Senator admitted that he was advising Mr. Raskob as counsel...