Word: acree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the United States Court of Claims, revising its 1935 award, granted the Indians $4,408,444, approximately $1.50 per acre for the million acres given to the Arapahoes in 1878, with interest at 5% for 60 years minus the expenditures (about $1,600,000) the Government has made...
Henderson was a great yachtsman and golfer, at Princeton a good ballplayer. Therein he differed from Aldrich, a son of Harvard, almost as sharply as in his prose. Aldrich cared little for sport aside from horses. He liked tweeds, quiet, his 400-acre estate near Barrytown, N. Y. His articles...
For two years Justice Van Devanter had been preparing to retire, had provided himself with a 778-acre farm in Maryland for that purpose, but lately opponents of the President's Court Plan had urged him not to quit. According to the account generally accepted in Washington last week...
As word spread throughout Ormond Beach, solemn groups gathered at the gates of the walled estate. Similar scenes occurred at his Lakewood, N. J. estate, where Mr. Rockefeller lately spent his summers, and at Pocantico Hills, where Mr. Rockefeller had bought up whole villages to create his 3,500 acre...
One of the ablest baseballers who ever lived, famed Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb is now one of the world's richest retired athletes. His fortune consists mostly of fat Coca-Cola holdings which he bought long ago on advice from his hunting crony, Coca-Cola's President Bob...