Word: cattlemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been accomplished step by step and industry by industry. In 1921 dairying began to enjoy stabler conditions. In 1922 cotton recovered from the worst of its post-war slump. Hogs brought better prices in 1921 and 1922. Corn rallied in 1923 and wheat last year. All this while the cattlemen, however, have been vainly looking for brighter skies. Only recently here conditions favored this long depressed industry...
...employs Lois Wilson and Ernest Torrence for two of the leading players. Unlike The Covered Wagon, it employs cattle instead of prairie schooners; and again, unlike that extraordinary film, it fails notably to mix history and drama in the right proportions. The play is a saga of the cattlemen, a panorama of miles of prairie where trailed the endless herds of long horns. A villain?you know he is the villain because he shot an Indian girl while she was bathing in the creek?is in the competent hands of Noah Beery...
...some 325 are sailing by the customary first and second class passage; nearly 100 are to go in the special student third class cabin instituted this year by several steamship lines; almost as many men again are making their passage instituted diverse ways as stokers, deck hands, stewards, and cattlemen. And a remainder of ten men from the University are crossing the ocean in the most unique way of all--as the officers and crew of a boat of their...
...Authorized an investigation (which was immediately undertaken) to discover "diploma mills" and "fraudulently made" physicians. ¶ Passed a bill appropriating 251,000 to reimburse Texas cattlemen for the loss of 4,300 tick-infested steers "negligently dipped" by the Department of Agriculture...
...Agriculture, provides cattle dipping vats in regions which are infested with what is known as the "fever-tick." To prevent spread of the disease cattle-raisers are required to "dip" their stock. The penalty for failure to do so is arrest and a fine. In parts of the South cattlemen object to this regulation. Rounding up cattle to have them dipped is a nuisance. The stockmen also claim that some of their cattle are injured by plunging through the vats and others by swallowing the disinfectant...