Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tabloid sensations of the '20s-the case of the late Long Island blueblood Leonard Kip Rhinelander and his Negro wife, Alice Jones. Rhinelander, claiming that she had represented herself as white, sued for annulment a month after their marriage in 1924, lost his case, got a Nevada divorce in 1929. She got an agreement from Rhinelander and his father to pay her $3,600 a year for life. The father continued the payments after the son's death in 1936, but after the father's death in 1940 the payments stopped, and Alice took the matter...
States that should have given the most gave the least: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Alabama, the District of Columbia. The five highest contributors on a per-head basis were Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Washington. The New Jersey per capita average was a mere 1.67 lb.; Nevada patriots averaged...
...course, all of the figures aren't in yet. Many filling stations have not turned in any of their rubber, and junk dealers have not made reports on their collections. Nevertheless, the western states have shown what can be done in this drive. California, Montana, and Nevada are in the vanguard in the west. Nevada, with a population almost exactly the size of Cambridge, has collected 653 tons, or 11.87 pounds per capita. There may have been a few more broken-down Model T's in Nevada, but otherwise there is no real reason why Cambridge shouldn't rustle...
...Where husband & wife may split their income in separate returns and thus save on high surtaxes. They are: Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Idaho, Louisiana, Texas, Washington (same provision optional in Oklahoma...
...melodramatic journey from coast to coast shows Hitchcock at his best. It gives movement, distance and a terrifying casualness to his painful suspense. It leads the hero to the palatial Nevada ranch of the master saboteur (Otto Kruger), into the hands of the police, out of them to an abandoned desert mining town loaded with paraphernalia to blow up Boulder Dam, on to Manhattan and an ironic denouement. The Girl (Priscilla Lane), of course, is picked up en route...