Word: reno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farmers were not wholly satisfied with the progress of Roosevelt relief to date. Their spokesmen said they had been led to expect much more from the Administration. Milo Reno was again threatening a farm strike. Even Secretary Wallace admitted that, with NRA raising farm costs faster than A. A. A. could raise farm income, they were "on the spot unless they got higher prices." Crop subsidies had not worked; currency inflation must therefore come next, and soon...
...Leon Abrams; Abbott & Dunning, producers). George Abbott can collaborate on good plays (Broadway, Coquette) as well as bad ones (Lilly Turner). His current production, neither good nor bad, is laid in a filling station on the edge of a U. S. desert. Peddling gas and oil to itinerant Mexicans, Reno divorcers, old folks on their way to die in the elephant valley of California, is the business of Olga (Jean Dixon, minus the acerbity so brilliantly displayed in Once in a Lifetime) and her young sister Myra. Surprised and shocked is Olga when her sinister onetime boy friend (Robert Gleckler...
...Reno, John Edwards Sievers filed a claim to the $100,000 willed by the late Horace Elliott Wadsworth as a reward for the apprehension of his murderer. Said John Edwards Sievers: "The coroner said Wadsworth died of 'acute alcoholism.' This is evidence that Satan, or the devil, killed him by an indirect method...
Divorced. Lewis Luckenbach, Manhattan shipping scion; by Delia Louise Stone Luckenbach, his second wife; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty...
...airplane from Reno to Chicago one day last week contained among its passengers the President's second son Elliott. Elliott had just been divorced from Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt, whom he married in January 1932, and by whom his son William Donner was born last November. Visiting in Chicago when he arrived were Mrs. Joseph Boynton Googins of Fort Worth, Tex., and" her dark-haired daughter, Ruth Josephine...