Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oklahoma's Senator Thomas, field marshal of the inflationary forces, was loosely threatening a march of 1,000,000 men on Washington unless there was a great outpouring of printing-press money. His polls of Congress showed a 20-to-1 sentiment in favor of quick inflation. Nevada's Senator Pittman tried to interest the White House in inflation by the free silver route. In Idaho Senator Borah rumbled: "Infla-tion is indispensable to the success of the NRA." A growing demand was developing for the Treasury to pay off depositors in closed banks with...
...Capitol Democratic Senators were secretly circulating a round-robin to the President protesting their failure to land jobs for friends. Particularly under fire for failing to appoint deserving Democrats were Secretary of the Interior Ickes, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Secretary of Labor Perkins. Nevada's Pittman, Foreign Relations Committee chairman and president protem of the Senate, was credited with a letter to the President which declared: "It is a strange thing that if a Democrat recommends an appointee, it is political coercion. If a Republican recommends one, it is entirely unselfish. If a Democrat is named ... it involves political...
...Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, northern Arizona. Oct. 16 to Dec. 15-Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York (except Long Island), Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Utah, Washington, Oregon, southern Idaho, northern New Mexico. Nov. 1 to Dec. 31-Long Island, N. Y., Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, California, northern Texas. Nov. 16 to Jan. 15-New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, southern Arizona, southern Texas, southern New Mexico. Nov. 20 to Jan. 15-Florida...
...Corruption probably is the chief cause of the trouble in Cuba," said Nevada's Key Pittman, Chairman of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, returning last week from the London Conference. "If the United States should intervene I think other nations would understand." After conferring with the President, Senator Pittman amended: "I expect our warships back soon. The Monroe Doctrine is a thorn in the side of South American nations...
...there ever was a logical route for a summer resort air service, it lies between San Francisco and Lake Tahoe, high in the mountain forests on the California-Nevada border. It takes 10 hr. of arduous driving to make the trip by motor...