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Little Richard Kleberg was brought to King Ranch at a tender age and grew up there, rough-riding over its vastnesses, clanking his spurs through the palatial ranch house, "Santa Gertrudis," which would put most Newport mansions to shame. His father sent him to law school at the University of Texas, after which he took up his duties as a King-Kleberg, helped manage the ranch from 1911 to 1924. Since then he has been the Kleberg front man. His younger brother Robert Justus Jr. sees to the King's 125,000 head of livestock, including the Klebergs...
...used plenty of fertilizer, rotated his corn, beans, grass crops, grew seed corn under-contract for a wholesale firm, bought a $1,075 tractor on the installment plan to help his two mules and five horses. By the time he was graduated from high school last year, with a four-year average of 92½%, Hunter Roy and the prospering Greenlaw farm were models for miles around. Last week the Future Farmers of America, of which Hunter is one of 173,000 members, convened in Kansas City, Mo. under the auspices of the Kansas City Star to confer their coveted...
Last summer, as talk of rewriting Section 77 grew, ICC put on the pressure. Western Pacific was the fourth Class I railroad shoved through the wringer in four months.* Giving a clear indication of its temper, ICC last week declared: "If . . . reorganization is to be successful, the capital structure of the reorganized company must be realistically related to its actual earning power...
Kings County (Brooklyn) has for district attorney no racket buster but a dapper, grey-haired Democratic politician, William Francis Xavier Geoghan (Ghee-gan). When Commissioner Heriands began probing into District Attorney Geoghan's protracted investigation of Brooklyn's fur racket, he grew mightily suspicious, started an investigation of his own. Last fortnight the two investigations clashed over an habitual jailbird named Isidore Juffe. Mr. Juffe told the Herlands office that he had ''paid plenty" to keep out of jail in Brooklyn. District Attorney Geoghan said he had been at liberty as a stool pigeon, promptly clapped...
...Olympian disdain for the public, Orlando Weber was quite willing to be delisted, but opposition grew in the ranks of stockholders and Allied gave in after two years. At the same directors' meeting where the $400,000,000 company gave in completely by agreeing to register on the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman Weber turned over his office to almost equally taciturn Henry Atherton. Since then Allied has revealed what proportion of its income comes from the chemicals it makes, what from investments, has gradually expanded its annual statements. Last week it finally revealed most of the miscellaneous securities...