Word: kleberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Robert J. Kleberg, 79, longtime owner of famed Santa Gertrudis ranch; after a long illness; at Kingsville. Tex. The Kleberg ranch is largest in U. S. (1,250,000 acres), could contain Delaware, District of Columbia, Chicago. The deceased's son Richard was elected to the House of Representatives last year...
...their party rushed into the contest against one Republican. In far-off Washington President Hoover, nervously aware of the election's significance, called for the returns, studied them with downcast eyes. For him they spelled another defeat because a Democrat by the name of Richard Mifflin Kleberg was elected. The President needed no political statistician to tell him that this meant that the House, his legislative mainstay for the last two years, was now lost to him, that it would line...
King Ranch. Congressman Kleberg's election delighted Democrats of the 15th district no less than it did those of his own 14th. It meant the Speakership for their "Mustang Jack" Garner. Besides, the Kleberg family are part owners of the immense King Ranch, largest single one in the U. S., which sprawls across 1,250,000 acres of Southeastern Texas and overflows into the Garner district. In 1925 Henrietta King, widow of Richard King, founder of this rural empire, died at the age of 90, tied her $25,000,000 property up in trust for ten years. A King...