Word: reno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down the main street of Yerington, Nev. (90 mi. from Reno) moved a small circus parade. Swaying gracefully on the head of an elephant leading the procession sat Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie. Perched upon a second elephant was Nevada's Governor, Frederick Bennett. Rocking on the hump of the show's lone camel came Lieut. Governor Morley Griswold. These three Republicans had come to town to campaign for reelection. Unable to compete with the circus, they had pocketed their speeches, joined the performance...
Your very accurate and complete story of Nevada's divorce facilities, p. 18, TIME of Sept. 15, must have been most interesting to the thousands of readers of TIME who have been granted a ''new freedom" by Reno's "Judgie" or who contemplate seeking freedom a vinculo matrimonii...
When you said that ''Monday at Reno is known as 'graduation day' because on that day divorces are handed," some grass-widows and widowers of Gotham must have felt slighted because you failed to mention "Wednesday matinee" in New York when the "Undefended Divorce Calendar" is called in our Supreme Court. Although adultery is the sole ground of divorce in the Empire State, our Courts have held that actual coition need not be proved, but that proof of the inclination and the opportunity is sufficient. Consequently the large audience which always attends the "matinee...
...Sept. 15 issue of TIME: ". . . Monday night the Reno station is crowded with happy ladies catching the Union Pacific limited, east to Chicago and a new freedom...
...your information Reno station is on Southern Pacific Lines and not Union Pacific...