Word: landed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...served a term (1929-31) in Federal prison on McNeil Island, Wash. for income tax evasion, divorced his wife in 1932 because she called him "ex-convict." His current girl: pretty, shapely, dark-haired Barbara Land...
...strengthening the industrial and financial power of the Basques and the Catalans, who were separatist in their politics, this war prosperity helped to undermine the monarchy. Spanish laborers drifted over the Pyrenees to France to work for war-time wages and sent money home. Yet with ownership of land and capital heavily concentrated in a few hands, peasants and stay-at-home workers failed to share in war profits...
...farmers outside the South were far from unemployed. Food prices rose even higher than the prices of industrial goods. As more and more wheat lands went out of production in Europe, wheat reached a dizzy $2.33 a bushel, and U. S. farmers borrowed heavily to increase their acreage; the total farm mortgage debt for the U. S. increased from $3,320,470,000 in 1910 to $7,857,700,000 in 1920. And during this same War decade the average value of farm land in the U. S. rose from $39.60 an acre...
...saddened by the death of a brilliant son, Publisher William Dargie of the Oakland Tribune died. Publisher Dargie had married a beautiful, improvident Spanish woman named Herminia Peralta, whose great-grandfather had once owned, by land grant from the Spanish Crown, nearly all the territory now covered by the cities of Oakland and Berkeley. To his widow Publisher Dargie left a half-interest in the Tribune, with the privilege of raising money to buy the other half at a court sale to settle his cash bequests. Needing cash herself, Widow Dargie got it from a friend of her husband, Congressman...
...needs work. There are thousands like him, for the number of U. S. daily newspapers had decreased by 211 in a decade. Time was when a good man could always get a job and the itinerant newspaperman was one of the most colorful figures in the land. He was hard-drinking, amorous, industrious when sober, able whether sober or drunk. Today these footloose reporters and copyreaders have nearly all died or settled down. The old timers who are left look back with nostalgia on the gaudier days of their profession, but stick to their jobs if they have jobs. Luckier...