Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were mentioned, all of whom escaped: Mr. Russell, a mining man from Pachura, and "the wife and child of C. H. Sharratt, Manager of the Guadalajara branch of the Bank of Montreal." President Calles at once ordered 4,000 Federal troops to pursue the bandits, or "revolutionaries," to a ranch known as " Quitupan" in the state of Jalisco, whither they had fled after escaping on the engine of the wrecked train...
Afterwards he went back to Geneseo and farming; then went down to the Panhandle of Texas and ran a ranch there for a few years. In 1902 he married Alice Hay, daughter of John Hay, the Secretary of State. Back in New York, he was elected to the Legislature for seven years in a row, the last five of which he served as Speaker. In 1914 he ran for the Senate, defeating James W. Gerard and Bainbridge Colby. He has been in the Senate ever since...
...advertisement of about half a page offering for sale small farms, subdivisions of a great ranch. Strangely enough, adjoining this advertisement on the same page was an extensive news article describing the same thing and headed: "Realization of Trail-breaker's Dream Makes Possible Owning of Homes by Men Poor but Thrifty...
Matters were in a bad way on Gilbert Jones' ranch one hot summer day with the mortgage due at 8 o'clock, a fretful uncle making a nuisance of himself, Gilbert's old sweetheart and her unpleasant husband complicating matters, and everybody fighting for possession of the ranch and the oil that would make its owner rich. Into this atmosphere charged with hate and what not besides comes Pancho Lopez to show how one can set the world aright with a sense of humor, a Colt 45, and a Machiavellian philosophy...
...Meighen, is Professor .William Levi Carlyle. An agricultural scientist, he is trying to persuade the Western Progressives of Alberta to send at least one Conservative to Ottawa. His chances of succeeding are reported to be excellent because of the somewhat irrelevant fact that he is manager of the ranch of Royal Highness, Edward of Wales...