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...aristocratic Southern background. 'My grandmother was a Bulloch from Georgia,' she wrote . . . Nowhere [did she name] that fine old Southern aristocrat who was the father of the Bulloch belle who married the first T.R. . . . The reason . . . might be that his name was Rufus Bulloch, sometimes spelled Bullock, one of the foulest rascals of a day when rascality was truly in flower; a thief, embezzler, grafter, a veritable Quisling, and ... a scalawag...
...down it really was. (King Features had also spotted the error, sent a belated "kill" order.) Two days later, the Constitution sternly corrected Pegler. In his "zeal to defame the Roosevelts," said the newspaper, Pegler had confused the "distinguished Bulloch family of Georgia"-with Rufus Brown Bullock, no Southerner but a damyankee from New York who was the "detested" governor of Georgia in Reconstruction days (1868-71). Mrs. Roosevelt was a Bulloch, not a Bullock...
When she was growing up in the gaslit, rococo elegance of post-bellum New York, Mary Bullock Powers seemed an extremely lucky child. She was not only healthy and pretty, but certain to be rich. Her father was brother, partner and heir of Hollis Lyman Powers, a millionaire friend of Vanderbilts and Goulds, and director of the storied Grand Central Hotel. Mary lived in a Fifth Avenue mansion, rode behind gleaming carriage horses and had lovely clothes...
...Japanese during World War II. After inheriting Mary's long-hoarded money, he said he hoped with it "in some small way" to help improve U.S. foreign relations. He also resolved to erect a monument on the grave of the recluse's mother. Unforgiving Mary Bullock Powers had left it unmarked for 37 years...
...There was nobody out here but me and the Indians," Lohman says. He rode hard and long, took personal charge of branding and altering calves, and every couple of years made the ten-day bullock-cart trip to Concepcion for supplies. He lived through the Chaco war (though the Bolivians bombed his ranch house) and Paraguay's innumerable revolutions...