Word: reno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Philip Green Gossler. president & chairman of the board of Columbia Gas & Electric Co.; by Mrs. Alice Muller Gossler, divorced wife of the late Joseph Kittredge Choate, nephew of the onetime Ambassador to England; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty...
...airport at Agua Caliente, Mexico. Each was intent on breaking the border-to-border record of 7 hr. 48 min. set last June by Broker-Crusader James Goodwin Hall. Wedell even intended to turn about at Vancouver and chase after Hawks back to Mexico. He paused for fuel at Reno, zipped over Vancouver Airport in less than 6 hr., flew 100 mi. farther before he realized he had passed his goal. Turning back, he landed with a new record of 6 hr. 42 min. Awaiting Pilot Wedell was a note from Hawks: "Best of luck. Jimmy. See you in Mexico...
Mayor Edward Ewing Roberts of Reno raged when he discovered between 75 and 100 prized, costly ducks floating dead on a pond at his Spanish Springs Hunting & Fishing Club, near Reno. Two guests, Jack Vandershoot and Henry Nelson, son of a Reno councilman, had shot the birds by mistake. They were live decoys...
Next move was to make Riga a Baltic Reno. Gambling casinos opened. Latvian divorce laws are enticing: with residence established, divorce may be obtained upon proof of three years' separation. Last week the Baltic Reno appeared in U. S. headlines. In Riga, striving once more to divorce Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean, was Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post. Mrs. McLean, having stopped one Mexican divorce by a court order, was working desperately to halt this by another. She obtained a temporary injunction from Justice Wheat of the District of Columbia Supreme Court. With Publisher McLean...
Here Goes the Bride- Cartoonist Peter Arno of The New Yorker had an exciting time in Reno last summer. There will never be other than variorum accounts of the procedure, but at some time during his residence, scrawny Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr. chased Mr. Arno across the landscape with an unloaded revolver. Mr. Arno included no incident quite so funny in his Here Goes the Bride, which perhaps accounted for the fact that the show went into oblivion after seven performances, together, it was understood, with a sizeable amount of money amounting to six figures belonging to John Hay ("Jock...