Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Governor Sholtz signed a bill reducing Florida's residence requirement for divorce from one year to 90 days. Its legislative sponsors had frankly termed it a bid for some of Nevada's 42-day and Arkansas' 90-day divorce trade. Said Governor Sholtz, a lifelong Congregationalist: "Florida is a tourist State, extending to the people of the United States an invitation to come here as visitors and remain as residents. If this bill brings additional residents or visitors to Florida, it will be in line with that invitation...
Public Service by a newspaper was best rendered by the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee, whose Associate Editor Arthur B. Waugh investigated the nominations by President Roosevelt of Nevada's Federal Judge Frank H. Norcross to the Circuit Court of Appeals, and of Lawyer William Woodburn to succeed Norcross. By linking both men with the George Wingfield political machine, the Bee thwarted the nominations...
...Vice President Garner's leather chair on the dais sat the Senate's president pro tern. Nevada's lean, hawk-nosed Key Pittman. Above the general hubbub he cried out: "The point of order is well taken...
From the rich soil of Kansas as many meteorites have been recovered as from Illinois, Oklahoma, Louisiana. Washington, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Minnesota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Nevada combined. To many a Kansan his State seems to be the favorite landing place for footloose fragments of the universe...
...name of John Hays Hammond means something to men-in-the-street of three continents, but probably not one in ten knows just what or why. Forty years ago Boer schoolboys, London clerks, Nevada miners knew the name well. For in 1896 John Hays Hammond, a prisoner under sentence of death in Pretoria Gaol, was a world headliner. From a news point of view, that was the apex of his career. But Convict Hammond has lived to tell a much lengthier, triumphantly anticlimactic tale. Last week he celebrated his Both birthday by publishing his autobiography. Oldster Hammond's report...