Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floor of the Senate one afternoon last week, Nevada's Pat McCarran made a sign to Missouri's Tom Hennings, and the two headed for the Democratic cloakroom...
...ostensibly to attend a police school). They were joined by 30 deputy sheriffs, twelve liquor inspectors, five police matrons, six welfare workers, three judges, the attorney general and three assistants, and squads of reporters and cameramen. They set out in two motorized caravans. One string of cars swung into Nevada and Utah to approach from the north; the other cut across the Arizona strip to hit Short Creek from the east. An eclipse of the moon cloaked their movements. But as it turned out, the Short Creekers knew all about the raid, and had stationed boys along the road...
...with his partner, Sportsman Lin Howard. Under California's community property law, Mrs Crosby owned half of Bing's vast holdings (oil, real estate, frozen juice), putting him in the position of paying federal and state inheritance taxes on property he had piled up himself. At his Nevada ranch, Bing shrugged, "Taxes are taxes...
Lucius Beebe, the dandy who swapped Manhattan's upholstered saloons last year for the publisher's desk on Nevada's Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, sang the praises of the rugged Nevada life to Columnist Leonard Lyons, but admitted that he still had a dude's taste for comfort. His bathroom contains, among other things, "my private barber chair, a reading rack of periodicals, phone extension, four slot machines, a crystal chandelier and a cuckoo clock...
...sweeping charges did not hold up. Said he: "The board paints with an exceedingly broad brush." FRB had shown that Transamerica had grown to gigantic size, dominating 41% of all banking offices, 39% of all bank deposits and 50% of all bank loans in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Arizona. "It may well be in the public interest," said Judge Maris, "to curb the growth of this banking colossus by appropriate legislative or administrative action." But, he ruled, FRB had failed to prove any lessening of competition or tendency to monopoly...