Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...island was long the wish of Mrs. Helen K. Morton of San Francisco. In this she was like many another person who yearns for the sovereign feeling of ruling a bit of water-locked land...
...took White Rock up with the General Land Office in Washington. U. S. officials had never heard of it, refused to believe its existence until it had been officially surveyed and "claimed" by the U.S. Having rescued the island from geographic oblivion, Mrs. Morton was more determined than ever to possess it. She asked the Land Office to sell it. But the U. S. does not sell such public domain...
When California was admitted to statehood, Juan Miranda assigned 13,400 acres of land near Petaluna to one Thomas B. Valentine. A poor protector of his own interests, Valentine failed to file this assignment with the U. S., with the result that he was "squatted" out of his holdings. He filed suit. The courts refused to give him back his own land, improved by squatters, but the U. S. recompensed him by issuing to him scrip (certificates) for 13,400 acres of public domain land anywhere else in the U. S. Valentine did not take up his acreage, but dribbled...
Valentine scrip dealers were hard to find. Mrs. Morton finally discovered one in Colorado from whom she bought enough to acquire White Rock. Recently she presented the scrip at the General Land Office, received her patent to White Rock, was thoroughly happy. Said she: "I never owned an island before. It seems even now that it may be the result of a belated reading of 'Cinderella' and an indiscreet rarebit. I am quite frankly undecided what to do with it and am open to suggestions...
...prevail over Commerce. But Art lost so much money that Commerce finally took over the theatre, where Morris Gest produced Aphrodite and The Miracle. No details of the proposed building have been announced but its 65 stories will undoubtedly rank it with the world's highest. Cost of land and building is estimated...