Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats: Nevada's Pat McCarran and Colorado's Ed Johnson. Eleven Republicans: Bridges, McCarthy. Dirksen, Ohio's Bricker, Idaho's Dworshak and Welker, Arizona's Goldwater, Iowa's Hickenlooper, Nevada's Malone, South Dakota's Mundt, Kansas' Schoeppel...
Crooner Frank Sinatra, dunned by the Bureau of Internal Revenue a fortnight ago for $109,997 in back federal income taxes, applied to the Nevada state tax commission for permission to buy a 2% interest in the gambling concession at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas' newest casino. Reported price of the share...
...first stages of the fight against Charles E. Bohlen's confirmation as Ambassador to Russia were based on Bohlen's political background. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy and Nevada's Pat McCarran said that they were against Bohlen because he was part & parcel of the Roosevelt-Truman-Acheson foreign policy. Last week the battleground suddenly shifted from policy to what Joe McCarthy called "security...
...hostility ranged in degree. Michigan's Homer Ferguson and California's William Knowland were not really happy about the nomination. Nevada's crusty Democrat, Pat McCarran, joined the GOP opposition; Bohlen's link with Yalta, he said, is "enough for me." Ohio's Robert Taft, in his role of Republican pacifier, thought the Moscow ambassadorship not important enough for a big intraparty battle. "Our Russian ambassador can't do anything. He is in a box at Moscow. All he can do is observe and report. He will not influence policy materially...
...Jacksonites settled down to an evening of celebration. The owner of the winning pair was a Jacksonite and nearly the most popular man in town-none other than Proprietor John Wort, 53, of the Wort Hotel and its Silver Dollar Bar. His beautifully matched quarter horses, Peaches Howard and Nevada Nugget, had survived all elimination heats, then raced down the pasture in a two-team final in a cracking 25 sec. flat-just 3 sec. over the turf record for quarter-horse racing...