Word: reno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. George Galt Bourne, 47, son of the late Singer Sewing Machine President Gilbert Bourne, father of Cinemactress Whitney Bourne (Crime Without Passion); by Nancy Atterbury Potter Bourne, 30, Manhattan socialite, his second wife; in Reno...
...Toward Reno traveling by airplane was the second Mrs. Marshall Field. She, too, was now ready to divorce the affable New York multimillionaire whose grandfather had created in Chicago a name known round the world...
...Reno, Mrs. Mildred Tilton Holmsen sat on the curb in front of her hotel, wriggled her bare toes in the gutter, asked newshawks: "There isn't anything wrong with shorts, is there?'' Last month, clad in men's shorts and a shirt, Mrs. Holmsen rode from Manhattan to Reno on the observation platform of her train, got so dirty from soot that ''a dignified gentleman" threatened to have her put off the train as a blackamoor. In Reno, still in shorts but without shoes or stockings, she entered a restaurant bar, was chased...
...Banker Reno Odlin of Olympia, sleek and 37, was the Republican choice for Senator. Like his opponent, he is a U. of W. alumnus, a onetime State Commander of the American Legion. He drinks milk because a Wartime dose of mustard gas makes liquor unpalatable. A director of Puget Sound Power & Light Co., Nominee Odlin during the campaign called public attention to the fact that Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt owns private utility stock. Since he is as conservative as Herbert Hoover, Washington voters will have no complaint against obscurity of issues in the Senatorial race this autumn. And since Washington...
Divorced. Mrs. Eppes Bartow Hawes Preston, daughter of onetime Missouri Senator Harry Bartow Hawes; from Lewis Thompson Preston, socialite aviator; in Reno...