Word: reno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banks closed, $20,000,000 of their $30,000,000 in bank deposits tied up. Lieutenant Governor Griswold had proclaimed a 12-day moratorium on all obligations except taxes, had urged every bank to take ad vantage of it. The seven banks which decided to face all comers included Reno's First National which sent to San Francisco for $1,500,000 in cash and announced it stood ready to pay $3,000,000 over its counter. When this halted an incipient run President Richard Kirman beamed at depositors and cried, "Come and get it tomorrow, there is plenty...
...Reno's Parade. The farm issue?Iowa's hottest?was realistically pointed up a few hours before President Hoover's arrival in Des Moines. Milo Reno, farm strike leader, assembled 2,000 shabby men, women & children, paraded them through the city in 40 trucks bearing such signs...
...Moines awaited him with mixed emotions. Republican leaders had carefully picked a large audience from all over Iowa to hear his address. Possible hecklers had been weeded out. Milo Reno, farm strike leader, was to stage a protest parade by his discontented followers. Washington earlier in the week had heard ugly stones of "half a dozen rotten eggs" to be apportioned to each marcher but both Democrats and Republicans insisted the President would be subjected to no discourtesy. Some G. 0. P. strategists thought a Hoover speech in Republican Iowa would be wasted effort but last week the state-wide...
...President Hoover picked Des Moines and Oct. 4 to make his first campaign speech. Nominally an answer to Nominee Roosevelt's Topeka speech, the Hoover address was expected to avoid new relief prescriptions, laud the recovery program already initiated. Milo Reno, farm strike leader, planned a protest parade by 20, 000 of his followers. Republican leaders assured President Hoover the Reno demonstration would not prove hostile...
Divorced. Jesse Lauriston Livermore, famed Wall Street speculator; by Dorothea Fox Wendt Livermore, 37, onetime beautician, his second wife; at Reno, Nev. Few minutes later Mrs. Livermore married James Walter Longcope, onetime Prohibition agent, famed for spending $7,000 in Texas Guinan's night club in 1927 to get evidence...