Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What "Pat" Hurley did for himself, however, is known to every poor boy of Oklahoma. At eleven he drove a mule in a mine. At 14 he was cowpunching on Lazy S ranch. He worked his way through Bacone College at Muskogee. He studied law at night in Washington. He returned to Tulsa to make $15,000,000 in real estate, banking...
Their claim: Pottawatomie tribesmen moved south from around Winnipeg. By 1800 they owned the country around the foot of Lake Michigan, from Milwaukee south to Indiana. Government agents drove them from Lake Michigan, forced them to sell part of the land in small lots, simply evicted them from the rest. Eviction did not destroy thei" title, so they are still rightful owners. Declared Andrew Johnson, an educated Pottawatomie, at last week's powwow: "From 1836 to 1840 a great injustice was done...
...published a succinct summary of the Jewish situation. Jews were invited by President Calles in 1924 to enter the country, colonize, farm, keep shops. The agricultural program proved unfeasible, but by 1927 there were nearly 20,000 Semites in Mexico, 75% of them concentrated about Mexico City. They peddled, drove taxis, set up small businesses, shrewdly undersold easy-going native merchants. Last spring the National Revolutionary Party, of which President Ortiz Rubio is titular head, started a violent campaign to oust Jews from Mexico. Permits allowing them to trade in the markets were recalled. As a result, some Jews...
...stick, sauntered to freedom. After a holiday in Davenport, Iowa, clever Convict Miller borrowed an automobile, started for Chicago. At Dixon, 111., he came upon something he had never seen before or during his twelve years in prison?a red traffic light. He gave it one contemptuous kok and drove merrily on. That night in the Dixon jail "Arthur Morris," arrested for driving through a stop light, told the story of Arthur Miller's clever escape to a sympathetic cellmate. The sympathetic cellmate told a sympathetic sheriff. The next thing Arthur Miller-Morris knew he was back in Joliet. sans...
...general the book is factually correct, no matter what the deductions. In one detail, however, the author's cocky memory tricked him. He refers to "a legend that a Mr. Astor, a cattle merchant, fed his stock great quantities of water just before he drove them to market. . . . His 'watered stock' made him rich." The trickster was the late unctuous, sniveling Daniel Drew, the cattle-watering one of the simplest and earliest of his many business rogueries...