Word: nev
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Water. Arizona, dissatisfied over water rights, has held out from the Boulder Dam compact. Last week at Reno, Nev., water commissioners from the six other interested states* met to evolve a compromise with Arizona, which has threatened otherwise to hamstring the whole development by prolonged litigation. At this Reno conference, California made new concessions to Arizona...
...army engineers and the Interior Department's reclamation service. Thirty miles of railroad must first be laid through a desolate rock-strewn wilderness and a town for 6,000 workmen built on the brink of the gorge. The prospect of Boulder Dam brought land booms at Las Vegas, Nev. and Kingman, Ariz. But so slow has the government been in getting started that these have mostly collapsed. Last week a gold strike outside Kingman made speculators forget Boulder...
...wrecked vengeance on a Massachusetts regiment on its way through their city. Harper's Weekly printed a full-page series of cartoons showing a grotesquely night-capped and bewhiskered Lincoln sitting up in bed while a lackey shouts: "The Blood tubs are after yer!" Lincoln replies, "Run-no-nev-a-r-r let 'em shoo-o-t." Finally, attired in his Scotch cap and long military cape (misconstrued as a disguise) "Abe" retreats over the back fences. He boards a train which takes him to the White House, where he is presented to President Buchanan by Seward...
Divorced. Leonard Kip Rhinelander, member of a family of Manhattan socialites; from Mrs. Alice Jones Rhinelander, octoroon; at Las Vegas, Nev. Grounds: she had "by her wiles and artifices taken advantage of his youth and inexperience." Married when he was 22, she 28, in 1925 he tried to divorce her at White Plains, N. Y., complaining that she had deceived him about her parentage...
Sued for Divorce. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, grandson of late great John Pierpont Morgan; by Mrs. Marie Louise Hamilton, daughter of C. Ledyard Blair, rich Manhattan broker; at Reno, Nev. Grounds: desertion, mental cruelty...