Word: pittman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shores of Anvil Creek, a few miles from Cape Nome. Overnight a rip-roaring canvas-and-scantling town sprang up, sheltering, feeding and quenching the notable thirsts of 20,000 miners, gamblers, tradesmen and wenches. Among that gaudy citizenry were such characters as Klondike Kate, Alexander Pantages and Key Pittman, now U. S. Senator from Nevada. By 1900, there was no place like Nome for placer mining. Then, when the beach and tundra had been furrowed of its treasure, Nome languished as a commercial city. Today less than 1,500 people live there. Last week Nome was all but wiped...
...column in the late Frederick Gilmer Bonfils' Denver Post, onetime editor of The Great Divide, weekly affiliate of the Post; of heart disease; in Denver. In Alaska, in 1900, he founded the Ornery and Worthless Men's Club of America. Among members were the late Tex Rickard, Senator Pittman of Nevada, Vice President Garner, Senator Huey Long, the late Governor Rolph of California, all members of the Anti-Saloon League. A close friend of Bonfils, Hoggatt used to amuse him by turning somersaults, slipping his false teeth through his lips and barking like...
...When Congressmen lifted the lid, they found its contents to be: three sops, a new tax, and some consoling generalities. There is also a tradition that he who chooses a silver casket "shall get as much as he deserves." Most silverites in Congress professed to be pleased. Senator Key Pittman of silvery Nevada promptly delivered a two-hour oration in favor of the Administration's latest silver bill. "We are now," he cried, "going back to normal. . . . There is nothing which inspires such confidence as silver money." Only a handful of Senators thought they deserved more than the President...
...down one noon with Senators King of Utah, Borah of Idaho, Pittman and McCarran of Nevada, Adams of Colorado, Shipstead of Minnesota, Thomas of Oklahoma. Absent was Silverite Wheeler of Montana who did not believe there was any use in more talk. The President was buttressed by non-silver advisers: Governor Black of the Federal Reserve, Secretary Morgenthau and Counselor Oliphant of the Treasury, Senator Harrison, Senate Finance Chairman...
Soon for all Mr. Lewis' grand manner he had the supporters of the Treaty jumping up & down in haste to contradict him. Mr. Pittman: I hesitate to interrupt the Senator, but he evidently did not understand what I read. Possibly it was poorly read...