Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Jesse Wilford Reno, 85, inventor in 1892 of the inclined elevator (a forerunner of the modern Escalator), son of Civil War General Jesse Lee Reno, who gave his name to Nevada's notorious "Biggest Little City in the World"; after long illness; in Pelham Manor...
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas...
...vote by which the Senate passed the labor bill last week was a testimonial to Taft's conduct of that debate. Only three Republicans voted against it: Oregon's Wayne Morse, Nevada's George Malone, North Dakota's William Langer. Senator Ives, who had forced Taft into a liberalization of a number of measures, went along in the end. So did Joe Ball, who had fought for a sterner bill but was not too displeased over the outcome. The vote, if it held, would be enough to override a presidential veto...
...Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation, the resulting crash echoed throughout the West like the crash of a felled Sequoia. Four Republican, four Democratic governors of California, Colorado, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Washington rushed to Seattle's Olympic Hotel to take counsel. Arizona and Nevada sent representatives...
...point he was asked to comment on a previous witness' statement: "What Alaska needs is white women and roads." Governor Gruening laughed, said he thought that women would come north if roads and other facilities for civilized living were available. Said a committee member, Nevada's Charles H. Russell (Republican): "In other words, you would put it 'roads and white women.' " Gruening smilingly assented...