Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rapprochement. The war and the accidents of politics brought Franklin Roosevelt and Walter George together again. When Nevada's Senator Key Pittman died in November 1940, Walter George became chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He worked hard for revision of the Neutrality Act and Lend-Lease...
...manufacturer. Then came news of the Yukon gold strike, and Oakes rushed off to prospect. He found no gold there. In the next 13 years of a persevering search he found none in Alaska, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, West Africa, the Belgian Congo, South Africa, Mexico, California or Nevada...
This absorbing tale of a lynching opens one afternoon in the '80s, as two tired stubble-bearded cattle punchers (Henry Fonda and Henry Morgan) canter into the hushed, cruel, lonely street of a suncracked Nevada town. They enter a saloon In the whiskied twilight of the day, a native appears with news of an up-country rancher's murder. The whole ennui-soaked town comes to life with sinister vigor. A posse is illegally deputized by a lout who happens to be substituting for the official sheriff. The mob includes a blood-crazy pants-wearing woman; a smoldering...
Opposed were voices from richer states (California, Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Nevada) which would lose on the deal. Likewise opposed were States' rights diehards. Observers held out little hope for the bill. But nobody denied that the low level of teachers' salaries played a big role in a U.S. educational crisis far deeper than that of World...
Directly in charge of the unit, is Lt. Commander Ernest C. Collins, a veteran Navy man and Annapolis graduate. Lt. Comdr. Collins, also a graduate of the Harvard Business School, has seen service in many waters including disbursing duty aboard the USS Nevada and with destroyer divisions afloat. Other tours of duty included the Naval Air Station at Cocosolo, Canal Zone, the Naval Supply depot at San Diego and as Supply Officer on the USS Savannah