Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drought was really on: The cloakroom of the U.S. Senate rumbled with such eloquent outrage over the dry spell that Nevada's balding James Scrugham (successor to the late Key Pittman) asked the Judiciary Committee to find the causes of hoarded, high-priced, hard-to-find spirits. Said Senator Scrugham, plaintively: "I have made some personal investigation of this matter...
...surprise action by James Henry Roberts ("Jimmy") Cromwell, 47, serious-talking-and-writing (The Voice of Young America, Pax Americana) playboy, short-time U.S. Minister to Canada ; eight years after their marriage, one week before her Reno residence would permit her to file a Nevada suit ; in Trenton...
...Training School. New York leads with 30 delegates and, as you might guess, Texas with 20 loyal ambassadors is runner-up. Next in order come Ohio with 16, Pennsylvania with 13, Illinois with 12. and California, Connecticut, and Indiana with six apiece to their credit. Mississippi, Delaware, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, and New Mexico are the missing links, or is one of the these states being slighted. In passing it looks as if the enrollment includes 41 First Lieutenants, 12 Captains, one Major, and the remainder, you've got it, are Second Lieutenants...
...Cromwell finally went to Reno-for relief from taxes, and a divorce "perhaps later on" from James H. R. (short-time Minister to Canada), who has rarely seen her in recent years. Three saddle horses, a shepherd dog and an automobile went along in a boxcar de luxe. Because Nevada levies no inheritance taxes, and few others that would affect her, the heiress planned to settle there. Still in the courts in New Jersey is a tax suit against...
...silents, sued for a divorce of a sort from Lumberman Albert Stanwood Murphy, whom she scared with some wild shenanigans last January 'for allegedly jilting her (TIME, Feb. 1). Murphy had been honeymooning with his new bride at that time. Alleged Madge Bellamy last week: under Nevada law she and Murphy have really been married since 1941, though without any ceremony, since Nevada considers it already a marriage when two people make up their minds...