Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be the majority side of the chamber that nearly a hundred Democrats will have to cross the centre aisle, sit with the Republicans in a -'Cherokee Strip.''* Solidly Democratic will be the house delegations from Colorado, Maryland, Indiana, Nebraska. Rhode Island, South Dakota. Utah. Missouri, Oklahoma, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, West Virginia, Arizona. New Mexico and ten other Southern States...
Louisiana. Colorado. Washington, California. North Dakota, New Jersey, Arizona having last week repealed their prohibitory laws, there are now 13 states which do nothing whatever about enforcing, Prohibition. The others: New York 0923), Massachusetts (1930), Wisconsin (19291. Nevada (1923), Montana (1926). Maryland has never passed an enforcement...
...Nevada...
...Nevada last week celebrated the 68th anniversary of its admission to the Union. No celebrant, however, was lank Governor Frederick Bennett Balzar, onetime railroad conductor, onetime six-shooting sheriff of Mineral County. He was in Washington, D. C. begging the R. F. C. to lend Nevada $2,000,000. Most of the banks of his arid State were at an impasse. When the loan did not come through, Governor Balzar communicated with his Lieutenant Governor Morley Griswold. As a result of that communication, Nevada's 91,000 citizens awoke from their celebration to find' 19 of their...
...which precipitated all the trouble. Banker Wingfield is a tall, powerful man with a shock of black hair shot with grey. He was born in Fort Smith, Ark. in 1876, the year of the Custer Massacre. Before he was old enough to enter a saloon he struck out for Nevada. In Winnemucca he learned faro, poker, bird-cage and 21. He was soon called "The Boy Gambler" and banked his own faro. He was in Goldfield during the 1906 boom, made a million dollars in mining stocks. His contemporaries in those days included the late Tex Rickard, who was running...