Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Utah, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Colorado. Nevada, New Mexico...
Married. Jean Wingfield, daughter of Nevada's famed George Wingfield, onetime cowboy, gambler, speculator, mine owner, banker (whose twelve Nevada banks are closed); and Chauncey McKeever, Oxford graduate, Chicago broker; in Manhattan...
...Islands have long had a heavy axe to grind with some of the gentlemen from Nevada and Iowa, etc., who take up residence periodically in Washington. The Territory particularly resents it when full-blooded Americans start talking about "those American possessions, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Hawaii." The loyal American Islanders have an extreme aversion toward being "possessed," even when the United States is the "possessor," for the same reason that the multi-racial jury in the Fortescue-Massie case was royally irked when Clarence Darrow talked to it "as if we were a group of Middle Western farmers...
Labor named as its representative on the automobile board Richard L. Byrd. In 1912 Mr. Byrd was known as the man who placed second in the discus throw in the Olympic games at Stockholm. Later he worked in the copper mines in Nevada, and after that for Fisher Body Co. Today he heads the A. F. of L. union in General Motors plants...
Died. Fredrick Bennett Balzar, 53, Republican Governor of Nevada, signer of his state's six-week divorce and legalized gambling bills; after a long illness; in Carson City...