Word: montana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bare facts of Mr. Jardine's career are that he, now 46, spent his boyhood on his father's ranch in Idaho punching cattle and breaking broncos. At 17, he went to Big Hole, Montana, and worked as helper on a dairy farm. Then he went to the Utah Agricultural College where he played football for four years, becoming captain of the team. Summers he spent on dairy farms and hay ranches. After graduating, he taught for a short time, then became manager of a farming company in Utah, then assistant cerealist of the U. S. Department...
Charles Beecher Warren of Michigan, former Ambassador to Japan and to Mexico, was nominated to succeed Mr. Stone some time ago. The Senate Judiciary Committee considered him critically. Senator Walsh of Montana led the opposition to Mr. Warren, which was based on the charge that Mr. Warren was involved with the sugar trust; that, in 1902, he had purchased for the American Sugar Refining Co. a controlling interest in the stock of a number of Michigan sugar companies; that, until recently, he was President of the Michigan Sugar Co. and of the Toledo Sugar...
Oliver Fairfield Wadsworth '27 of Great Falls. Montana...
...consideration was that Mr. Stone was confirmed as an Associate Justice, 71 to 6. The only Senators who voted against him were Heflin and Trammel (Democrats), Norris and Frazier (Insurgent Republicans), Shipstead and Magnus Johnson (Farmer-Laborites). Senators Wheeler and Walsh, both of Montana, asked to be excused from voting. With the exception of Messrs. Norris and Frazier (and Senator LaFollette, now in Florida for his health, but who, it was announced, would have voted against Mr. Stone), the Insurgent Republicans lined up with their Regular colleagues and with the bulk of the Democrats to settle the matter decisively...
...cinema. The film (from Conan Doyle's tale) is unimportant in narrative. An English youth would like to marry. His girl tells him he must do big things. Eventually, they migrate to South America on the trail of prehistorics. Out come the brontosauri and Bull Montana as an ape man; the fun starts. Later, one of the beasts runs loose in the streets of Liverpool. Just how it is all done, only the camera man knows. It will repay inspection. The Great Divide, you will recall, was one of the first men-are-men dramas and created exceptional excitement...