Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Islanders who continued to hope they would be appointed Governor of Hawaii despite a change in the law included Rufus Hagood, Honolulu physician; William B. Pittman, Honolulu lawyer, brother of Nevada's Key Pittman who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Delbert E. Metger, chairman of last year's territorial Democratic convention, and John H. Wilson, Scotch-Irish-Tahitian-Hawaiian who, at the age of 12, used to polish guns in the royal Hawaiian armory...
...Darius Ogden Mills, grandfather of the present owner, Virginia & Truckee was controlled in recent years by the Mills and Sharon estates of San Francisco. Rising silver prices, discovery of a new lode at Virginia City have made prospects of the road look up; its purchase by Mr. Mills gave Nevada the idea that the silver mining business must indeed be going to boom...
Last week like a generalissimo on the battlefield Senator Thomas was in complete command of the Senate inflationists. Into the silver debate he sent his cohorts -Louisiana's Long, Nevada's Pittman, Utah's King-to make his arguments for him while he sat back and egged them on. When the roll was called, the nation was amazed to learn that 33 Senators plumped for inflation by the coinage of silver-a clear gain of 15 votes in three months...
...Mexico had the highest 1931 birth rate-28.4 per 1,000 population. Nevada had the lowest-13.2 per 1,000. New Mexico's rate has risen slightly the past several years. Contiguous Arizona has had no general downward trend. Both States have a large Mexican population...
...make silver producers rich by raising silver prices. No different from any other raid on the Treasury, this attack is led by Congressmen from Nevada, Colorado. Arizona and Utah...