Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work. Nevada's McCarran, the only Senator who appeared to wish the filibuster to go on, obliged by demanding another quorum, but this time Huey Long did not dare leave the floor for fear of losing his speech-making prerogative. Besides, the galleries were filling up with a new crowd-Washingtonians who preferred listening to the Kingfish to watching the Shriners parade in the rain. Going to the clerk's desk Long snatched up the official list of Senators...
Richest strike in Nevada's fabulous Corn-stock Lode was made in March 1873 when the Consolidated Virginia mine opened a silvershot vein 54 ft. thick. Before it was played out the vein yielded $190,000,000 in pure bullion and made a onetime Irish immigrant clerk one of the richest men in the greatest get-rich-quick era in U. S. history. Like many another bonanza king, John William Mackay beat a quick & gaudy path to the capitals of Europe but he did leave an enduring monument to his amazing energy-Postal Telegraph...
...estate, having closed his big house and stopped the salaries of his hundreds of gardeners, grooms and domestics. To-day with non-dividend-paying I. T. & T. selling at $9 Mr. Mackay is certainly solvent but he no longer plays godfather to anything from the New York Philharmonic to Nevada University's Mackay School of Mines...
...caught squarely by the tax), industrialists and rich folk in general. Screamed the Hearst San Francisco Examiner last week: "Extortionate and confiscatory taxation will mean . . . devastation of business, paralysis of industry. . . ." Again the motion picture industry has threatened to move out, and assorted tycoons are talking about emigrating to Nevada, Hawaii, Florida, anywhere. Two nationally famous Californians have grown particularly articulate. Wrote Novelist Charles Gilman Norris (Bread, Seed, Pig Iron) in a letter which was printed in California papers of the sympathetic Hearst chain...
Married. Max Reinhardt, 60, stage and cinema producer; and Helene Thimig, his longtime great & good friend, member of a famed German acting family; in Nevada, en route to Hollywood, where Reinhardt lately completed filming A Midsummer Night's Dream. In Reno last month he obtained validation of his divorce four years ago in Riga, Latvia, from Actress Else Heims, who threatened to charge bigamy should he remarry...