Word: stated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notice in your issue of Aug. 12 that three things vividly associated in the public mind with the State of Nevada are divorces, silver and the Mackay family...
...have been following TIME very closely for the last few weeks in some hopes that I would find something of local interest that has attracted much attention and comment. Namely, it is the vote taken recently in Texas on two proposed amendments to the State constitution; one of them providing for an increase of the Governor's salary from $4,000 per annum to the appalling (decided so by the people of Texas) sum of $10,000, the other providing for some reforms in the Texas Supreme Court. However, both of these proposed amendments met with defeat...
This fate I attribute to the ignorance and intellectual backwardness of the people of Texas as a whole. The largest State in the Union will not pay their Governor but $4,000 a year! A State with a population well over ten million will not pay their Governor as large a salary as the Federal Government pays their representatives to Congress! The State of Texas will not reorganize their Supreme Court into modern form! . . . This situation is ridiculous...
...Washington last week went a diamond-studded grand cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru, addressed to President Hoover. Secretary of State Stimson prepared to put it away in a department vault until the President becomes again a private citizen and constitutionally eligible to receive foreign decorations...
Kentucky is the State once proud of its whiskey, women and steeds. Of his native State's whiskey from the pioneers to the Prohibitionists, Author Cobb betrays some knowledge. Excerpt: "Just about the time they first began making red likker here in Kentucky, which was back in pioneer days, there was a craze on for French names among our people. As a result there's a Bourbon County and a Fayette County and a town named Paris and a town named Versailles . . . so maybe they named it [red likker] for Bourbon County...