Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immersed in various bodies of water more frequently and for longer periods than anyone else of her sex. Most protracted was her sojourn in a Coney Island swimming pool which lasted for 60 hr.. 2 min. Last fortnight, she visited Lake Tahoe, on the border of California and Nevada, farther north than San Francisco, where the altitude, almost 6,500 feet, makes it hard for a swimmer to inflate her lungs comfortably and where something in the icy, mountain spring water affects the membranes of the nose and causes choking. Mrs. Huddleston examined Lake Tahoe, decided...
Febrile, high-powered, insouciant is Reno, Nevada, divorce capital of the U.S. With rare abandon it orders its life, welcoming all comers: moody socialites, glittering cinemactresses, minor celebrities who will bring front-page space as did Cartoonist Peter Arno and Author Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. when they quarreled boyishly (TIME, June 29). Loving to be unique, Reno was pleased last week when there arrived in town Dr. Thomas Kiley Gorman, 38, first Roman Catholic Bishop of the new diocese of Reno, Nevada (TIME, Aug. 3). For Bishop Gorman is no run-of-the-mill prelate such as another State might...
...public banquet. Said he: "It is already becoming embarrassing to be pointed out ' as Reno's 'boy bishop,' Parents have always warned their children that they should be seen but not heard." He busied himself meeting and talking with his welcomers. Among them were Nevada's Governor Fredrick Bennett Balzar, California's Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., Reno's Mayor Edward Ewing Roberts, Justice Edward Ducker of the Nevada Supreme Court, onetime District Attorney William Boyle, Divorce Lawyer Patrick McHarran...
...United Press he issued a signed article: "Naturally my position on divorce is that of the Catholic Church. Marriage is a permanent relation of lifelong duration, and separation for grave cause may be permitted, but without freedom to remarry. As a question of principle, the problem of divorce in Nevada is no different for the Bishop of Reno than for any 1 other Catholic Bishop. Nevada isn't unique. . . . What does make Nevada the divorce mecca is the absolute freedom for immediate remarriage. . . . Only one more step remains to reach a state of promiscuity prevailing in the barnyard...
...Nevada desert the summer temperature ranges between 100° and 120°. In the diversion tunnels on the canyon floor it averages 10° to 20° higher. Since work began at the dam five men have been killed by accidents, twelve have died from the heat. Workers claimed the water in the tunnels is too hot to drink, while outside they have to drink river water. They complained ventilation is poor in the bunk houses, where they pay $1.50 per day, that some time ago wages for laborers were reduced from...