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Married. Jean Wingfield, daughter of Nevada's famed George Wingfield, onetime cowboy, gambler, speculator, mine owner, banker (whose twelve Nevada banks are closed); and Chauncey McKeever, Oxford graduate, Chicago broker; in Manhattan...
...banks as it is of rain. It was the first state to declare a moratorium during the Depression-Nov. 1, 1932, day after it celebrated the 68th anniversary of its admission to the Union. No banks have failed since but a tottering chain of twelve institutions, owned by George Wingfield, oldtime gambler and mining speculator, never reopened. Transamerica's eastward move brought promise of a desert blooming of new banks. Reno's First National has long been hand-in-glove with Amadeo Peter Giannini and Nevadans welcomed the deal, hoping that under his control...
...this sequel to "Those Earnest Victorians," Mr. Wingfield-Stratford sets himself the complex task of describing the several stages of twilight that followed the day of the mid-Victorians. In considering the diverse aspects of the last three decades of the century, his gifts for summary and the choice of significant detail enable him to be consistently solid, without opacity, and hence, consistently absorbing. The miscellaneous course of empire, comprising shoes as well as ships, and cabbages along with kings; the "crumbling of the old certainties," the decline of traditional society, the rise of sport for sport's sake...
...well be a defect of the stylist and not the historian. The writing of the book certainly is marred by a sort of false urbanity and lacks the flair for effortless insinuation such as Lytton Strachey displayed in treating of the same period. Despite these minor shortcomings, Mr. Wingfield-Stratford has probably written, the most comprehensive and enjoyable of all the recent books on the Victorians...
...twelve banks owned by George Wingfield opened. It was this chain's weakness which precipitated all the trouble. Banker Wingfield is a tall, powerful man with a shock of black hair shot with grey. He was born in Fort Smith, Ark. in 1876, the year of the Custer Massacre. Before he was old enough to enter a saloon he struck out for Nevada. In Winnemucca he learned faro, poker, bird-cage and 21. He was soon called "The Boy Gambler" and banked his own faro. He was in Goldfield during the 1906 boom, made a million dollars in mining...