Word: reno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were suspected of making jobs for themselves as fire fighters. On St. Swithin's Day alone, electric storms had started 200 fires in northern Idaho and western Montana. Klamath, Trinity, Siskiyou and Columbia National Forests were all on fire. Smoke hung over the high Sierras as far as Reno. Nev. It blinded forest lookouts, prevented them from spotting new outbreaks. Ships in Puget Sound used fog horns as the pall from the biggest fire of all, the worst in British Columbia's history, swept unchecked over 100,000 acres of Vancouver Island. Millions of feet of felled timber...
Married. Katherine Mackay O'Brien, daughter of Postal Telegraph's Clarence H. Mackay, older sister of Mrs. Irving Berlin; to Attorney Robert Ziemer Hawkins of Reno; in Reno. Mrs. Hawkins' first husband (divorced 1937) is New York Supreme Court Justice Kenneth O'Brien...
Still refusing to admit that Charlie Chaplin and she are man & wife, Paulette Goddard announced she was leaving for Reno "to establish a ski club...
Divorced. James McDonald III, 24, Idaho oil heir; by Alecea Brezee McDonald; in Reno. Grounds: desertion. Hour later Mr. McDonald married Doris Marie Cunningham, 22, to give their son born out of wedlock a legal name, was promptly divorced by her on grounds of cruelty, next day married June C. Kerns...
Married. Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean Jr., 19, second son of bizarre Washington Socialite Evalyn L. Walsh McLean; and Ann Carroll Meem, 19, daughter of Washington Banker Henry Grant Meem; in Washington. Best man was Brother John R. McLean II, who married Agnes Pyne Bacon in Reno last April...