Word: reno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Henry Edward Hugh Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 24, Earl of Lincoln, onetime drummer in a London jazzband, son &heir of the 8th Duke of Newcastle, and Mrs. Jean Banks Gimbernat, Manhattan socialite divorced last year in Reno; in Manhattan. In 1902 his father sold the family's most famed possession: the blue Hope diamond, reputed to bring doom upon all who own it (said to have been the property of Queen Marie Antoinette, who was beheaded, it now belongs to the separated Edward Beale McLeans of Washington...
With the double attraction of being a wide-open town and the place where one can return to the single state quickest in the U. S., Reno had successfully met the challenges of Boise and Hot Springs, had retained its distinction as the nation's divorce capital, had protected its $3,000,000-a-year business...
...enactment of the gaming statute crowded Reno's palaces of chance with increased patronage, although no addi tional halls were opened. The new law merely makes legal what has gone on 24 hours daily for years. The famed Bank Club, however, was preparing to knock out a wall to provide larger quarters for the gamesters. Each game was taxed $50 a month, 50%, of which will go to the city in which it is collected, the remainder split between county and State. Slot machines were licensed at $10 a month. Although the State passed an antigambling law in 1910. since...
Happily listening to whir of wheels and click of chips, Mayor Edward Ewing Roberts of Reno, survivor of the Old West, declared: "It's all nonsense trying to regulate people's morals by law. For eight years I've been trying to make Reno a place where everybody can do what they please?just so they don't interfere with other people's rights. Now we can do lawfully what Nevada has always done under cover...
...days to 42. In the Senate Committee on Public Morals one group argued to delay the Senate vote until the last minute, to prevent the bill being matched by any other state; another faction urged that it be rushed through, effective May 1, to forestall an exodus of Reno's divorce colony...