Word: reno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...original claim holders sold out early. Writes Lewis: "When Alvah Gould sold, for less than $500, his half interest in the Gould & Curry, he boasted of having duped his fellow Californians; but his claim yielded 15 millions, and Gould ended his days operating a peanut stand in Reno...
...applauded. A silk-stocking audience in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel broke into a noontime speech 25 times in 35 minutes. He was also cheered, though more perfunctorily, by Republicans in San Francisco and Reno, and greeted heartily by party members in Las Vegas and at Hoover and Shasta dams...
Divorced. Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay Bradstreet Whitaker, 33, who once suffered national tabloid fame as the "sterilized heiress"; by her third husband, Mining Operator John Whitaker, 56; after six years; in Reno. Heiress Ann (daughter of Inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt) in 1936 filed a lurid suit (eventually dropped) charging that her mother had had her illegally sterilized...
Divorced. By Bettine Field Goodall, 24, daughter of Publisher Marshall Field (Chicago Sun, Manhattan tabloid PM): Dr. McChesney Goodall Jr., 30; after five years, one child; in Reno, two months after brother Marshall's divorce...
...Jimmy separated. Three years later she got a Reno divorce, although Jimmy countered with a court order declaring the divorce of no effect in New Jersey. While their broken romance dragged through the courts and the tabloids, Dee-Dee went to Egypt to help the war effort...