Word: reno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Jesse Wilford Reno, 85, inventor in 1892 of the inclined elevator (a forerunner of the modern Escalator), son of Civil War General Jesse Lee Reno, who gave his name to Nevada's notorious "Biggest Little City in the World"; after long illness; in Pelham Manor...
Divorced. Anthony Drexel Duke, 28, millionaire (Lucky Strike) great-grandson of Tobacco Baron Washington Duke; by Alice Rutgers Duke, 26, pretty, freckled Johnson & Johnson (Band-Aid) kin; after seven years, two children; in Reno...
...wave of Brain Trusters. (Author Lord was one of them for a year, ghosted many of Wallace's reports, speeches and articles then & later.) Some measures of the quality of F.D.R.'s earliest advisers is suggested when Roosevelt tagged Wallace "Old Man Common Sense." But to Milo Reno, a farm-audience spellbinder of the early '30s, "Wallace would make a second-rate County Agent if he knew a little more." And blunt AAAdministrator George Peek (whom Lord respects), wrote: "[Wallace] tended rather to specialize in the study of corn, and was a dreamy, honest-minded and rather...
Divorced. Rear Admiral Ellery Wheller Stone, 53, chief of the Italian Affairs section at Allied Force Headquarters in Italy, ex-head of the Allied Control Commission in Italy, president of Postal Telegraph, Inc.; by Louise Wardwell Stone; after twelve years, three children; in Reno...
character labels: Austin from Boston, fluke from Dubuque, groan from Bayonne, keeno from Reno, leery from Erie, mute from Butte, noisy from Boise, pester from Chester, skunk from Podunk, trixie from Dixie...