Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bobbed-haired, brunette Junior Leaguer of 23, whose late father was head of the Swift packing plant at Fort Worth. She had been invited to a dinner party given for Elliott. He drove her back to Fort Worth, went to see her once before proceeding to Nevada to establish residence for his divorce...
...Scarcely happier was silver Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, the U. S. Delegate who went to the Conference to urge stabilization of the world's currencies on a bimetallic basis of 20% silver and 80% gold. Evidently nettled by President Roosevelt's refusal to stabilize the dollar now on any basis, Senator Pittman said last week: "The world should either adopt a system of managed currencies or return to a metallic basis. Personally I do not believe we have reached the stage where we can have managed currencies. It comes down to a question of whether we have...
Michigan, Wisconsin, Rhode Island. New Jersey, Wyoming, New York, Delaware, Nevada-and last week Illinois, by a 4-to-1 landslide, and Indiana, by 2-to-1, voted to ratify the 21st Amendment. Illinois, home State of the W. C. T. U. (at Evanston) had been conceded Wet since its 1931 Repeal referendum. Indiana, home of militantly Dry Senator Arthur Robinson, seat of the Northern Ku Klux Klan and of the Prohibition Party's last national convention, provided the first real test of strength of U. S. Drys, Consolidated...
...America (pop. 12,000) and because of the fact that for 75 years we have had a Boulder Canyon and for many years, a dam at the head of that canyon, 18 miles from the city, we protested the naming of the new city near the dam site in Nevada, "Boulder City...
...after Ambassador Bingham's open-ing-wedge speech, Secretary of State Hull sailed for London determined to negotiate a program of reduced tariffs, stabilized currencies and a general increase in world prices. Other conference delegates aboard the "President Roosevelt" with him were Nevada's Senator Pittman, Tennessee's Representative McReynolds and Texas' Ralph Morrison. Later in the week Delegate James Middleton Cox departed on the Olympic, declaring: "If the world is sick enough to have gained any sense, the Conference will be a success...