Word: reno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when he was barely 18, Smith Reynolds married Anne Cannon, daughter of a Concord, N. C. textile tycoon. In August 1930, they had a daughter. A year later young Smith Reynolds, who had studied aviation instead of going to college, flew his wife to Reno for her divorce...
Married. Josephine ("Fifi") Widener Leidy Holden, two-time divorced daughter of Philadelphia's rich Joseph E. Widener; and Aksel C. P. Wichfeld, onetime minor Danish legate to the U. S.; in Reno, Nev., a few hours after the groom's divorce from Mabelle, a relative of Chicago's Swifts...
...Reno, leader of the Iowa farm strike...
...every business failure. But now the rising sun of a new day is here for Agriculture and a Democratic Congress will soon enact legislation to aid the farmer. The farmer won a wonderful victory in the election." Strikers. Closely associated with the National Farmers' Union is Milo Reno's Farmers Holiday Association which sponsored last summer's "farm strike" in Iowa. Striker Reno's threat: "The time has come for direct action. If Roosevelt makes a misstep we'll fight him just as hard as we fought Hoover. We'll come down harder than...
...charge: When he came home one July midnight last year to Madison, Wis., to find Harris with baggage and Mrs. Clark,. Harris agreed to pay $200,000 in trust for Clark's two children, $500 a month for life to Clark. A month later Mrs. Clark divorced him in Reno, six months later the payments stopped. Moving to dismiss the action, Banker Harris' attorney said: "Shocking and revolting . . . against public policy and corrupt and void...