Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus as had happened in Nevada last autumn, in Louisiana last fortnight, a banking moratorium was proclaimed this week in Michigan. It shut tight for eight days 530 banks with some $1,500,000,000 in deposits, was the biggest moratorium since the Depression...
Most densely populated large region of Earth is Cochin, a British Indian State, according to a last week's dispatch. Cochin has 814 people to the square mile. (Rhode Island has 644.1 persons per square mile, Nevada...
...next 40 years the Post was to become more & more a phenomenon of U. S. journalism. Unspeakably blatant, it declared itself "The Big Brother of The League of Rocky Mountain and Plains States, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Montana and South Dakota." It called itself a "gladiator invincible, fearless, determined, with a giant's strength, a philosopher's mentality. . . . The champion of every good, and pure, and noble, and holy and righteous cause. . . ." Sprinkled through its pages (and always over fair weather reports) was the legend "'Tis a Privilege...
...Last week was mostly visitors week at Warm Springs. Important callers on the President-elect included Arkansas' Senator Robinson (short session program), Alabama's Senator Bankhead (Muscle Shoals), Nevada's Senator Pittman (silver), Louisiana's Senator Long (nothing in particular), Missouri's Senator-elect Clark (farm mortgages), Texas' Senator Connally (cotton prices). American Tobacco's George Washington Hill came to discuss upping tobacco prices. Rear Admiral Cary Grayson was told that the Roosevelt inaugural, which he will arrange, must be severely simple and inexpensive. The call of Henry Agard Wallace, bolting Republican farm...
Call Her Savage (Fox) is a blatant and tasteless libel on the Amerind, notable only because its heroine is impersonated by Clara Bow, who retired from the cinema in 1931 after winning a suit against her secretary, Daisy De Boe. When, after retiring to a Nevada ranch and marrying Actor Rex Bell, Cinemactress Bow announced last summer that she would resume acting, producers were dubious. They felt that Miss De Boe's revelations about Miss Bow's private affairs might have injured her popularity. Having decided to take a chance, Fox did more. It chose as a vehicle...