Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agitator of the parade was a fleshy U. S. sportsman, Missouri's Democratic Senator Harry Bartow Hawes, author of a pending bill in Congress to free the islands.* He stood on the steps of Manila's Legislative Building to receive ovations, watch the fun. Beside him stood Nevada's Senator Key Pittman, many a Filipino official. For two hours Senator Hawes watched 50,000 natives file by-school children, college students, labor unionists, club women, civic workers, politicians. Loud and long were the cheers for Senator Hawes. Said he afterwards: "That turnout convinced me the Filipinos want...
...means favorable for a political career. His grandfather was Darius Ogden Mills who left a Buffalo bank for the 1849 gold rush, not as a prospector but as a hardheaded merchant and trader. Grandfather's first year's profit in California was $40,000. The Comstock Lode in Nevada made him rich. He doubled his money in railroad stock and timber land, returned to New York 30 years later to take his place near the top of Society. When he died in 1910 he left an estate of $41.000,000 in New York Central, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, International Paper...
This summer Manila has become a mecca for junketing Senators and Repre- sentatives. When Missouri's Senator Hawes, author of the pending independence bill, landed, he was almost overwhelmed with native demonstration of affection and delight. Other Philippine visitors included Senators Oddie and Pittman of Nevada, Patterson of Missouri and Vandenberg of Michigan; Representatives Gibson of Vermont and Dowell of Iowa. Most of them went to the islands with their minds made up for independence. After their visits all except Representative Dowell began to think that freedom might be an economic catastrophe...
...geographical author (Park Avenue, Palm Beach, Reno), called in the newspaper reporters. He told them that he had seen Cartoonist Peter Arno of The New Yorker kissing Mrs. Vanderbilt, that he had just caught Arno bringing Mrs. Vanderbilt home, had chased him with a revolver (Vanderbilt is an honorary Nevada State Policeman), tried to kill him. Later Mr. Vanderbilt's attorney modified the story, said that his client had gone after Mr. Arno but had thought better of it, returned home. There, he said, he discovered that his gun had been unloaded at the time...
Secretary of the Interior Wilbur will swing through the national parks for a holiday at his Sierra Nevada Mountain camp...