Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reno, Nevada, besides being a divorce mill, is a town of 18,500, with cinemas, dance halls, churches, a high school, a business college, a university (University of Nevada). Between the transient divorce-seekers and the permanent population of Reno there is a sharp line. Reno boys & girls pay no attention to its wide-open gambling halls. At its bars they drink only soft drinks. Few of them smoke...
Thus Mr. Hatch's foes included Virginia's Glass & Byrd, bosses of The Old Dominion's tightly controlled courthouse crowd; Mississippi's Bilbo & Harrison, Alabama's Bankhead & Hill; Arkansas's Caraway & Miller, South Carolina's Byrnes & Smith, Nevada's Pittman, Oklahoma's Lee & Thomas-all of them members of powerful State organizations, and therefore mighty fighters for the status...
...Calif. Lawyer Untermyer made $75,000 in his 21st year, was a millionaire before he was 40, made his fame as counsel for the Pujo Committee in the Congressional investigation of the "Money Trust." Some of his biggest fees: $775,000 for merging Utah Copper with Boston Consolidated and Nevada Consolidated; a cool million for reorganizing the amusement empire of William Fox. For three witnesses whom he examined, he expressed professional admiration : the late Steelmaster Charles M. Schwab, the late John D. Rockefeller Sr. ("He could always read my mind"), the late J. P. Morgan...
Though the key men of the silver bloc, Nevada's Key Pittman and Pat McCarran, talk sentimentally about silver's importance, in Nevada itself the income from Reno's divorcees (temporary residents) is greater than that from silver; the State's meagre manufactures are five times as valuable as its silver production...
...49er left San Francisco's Laurel Hill Cemetery to make way for a real estate development. Dug up were the skeletons of California's Senator David C. Broderick, killed in the West's most noted duel, in 1859, by California Supreme Court Justice David S. Terry; Nevada's Senator William Sharon, Comstock Lode proprietor who entertained President Grant on gold plate in 1879; California Circuit Court Judge M. Hall McAllister, who sired Socialite Ward McAllister; William M. Bourn, whose money bought the Killarney Lakes for the Irish Free State...