Word: klebergs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rifle practice came in handy later. When Miller was working on the King Ranch cover story (TiME, Dec. 15, 1947), he went on a one-day hunt with Tom Armstrong, neighbor of King Ranch Chief Robert Kleberg Jr. After Miller dropped his first wild turkey with a shot through the neck, Armstrong, thinking it a lucky shot, politely hailed his marksmanship, poured a toast of bourbon in a tin cup. A second turkey, shot through the head, called for another toast. After Miller had shot a deer through the neck and another in the head, there wasn't much...
Cattleman Robert Justus Kleberg Jr., boss of Texas' 920,000 acre King Ranch, is proudest of his development of the Santa Gertrudis breed,* the hardiest and heaviest all-grass-fed cattle in the U.S. (TIME, Dec. 15, 1947). Kleberg always kept most of his prize Santa Gertrudis bulls for the King Ranch, but other cattlemen sought them so avidly that each year he obligingly sold a few, at a standard price of $350. The waiting list grew so big that Bob Kleberg (rhymes with hay-burg) decided to try an experiment...
Last week, he held an auction at his Headquarters Ranch near Kingsville to see how much his bulls would actually bring in an open market. Up for sale went 29 of his best young Santa Gertrudis bulls. To Kleberg's surprise, some 500 ranchers from all over the Southwest swarmed into the flapping brown auction tent, braving a chill Texas "Norther." The bidding was even more surprising. The first bull went for $1,450, the next for $1,575; one fine bull brought the top price of $10,000. In all, the 29 bulls brought an average price...
Lyndon Johnson began learning his way around Washington in 1932, as secretary to Rancher-Congressman Dick Kleberg. Five years later he was back in Texas, campaigning for a seat of his own. Franklin Roosevelt chanced to be fishing from a destroyer off the Texas coast at the time, read and liked Johnson's hard-hitting New Dealing speeches. F.D.R. saw to it that the freshman Congressman got a seat on the important House Naval Affairs Committee...