Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing Sacred. That night Ike and party flew to Denver; next morning they motored across the continental divide for two days of trout fishing at a ranch owned by two Denver friends. Mortgage Banker Aksel Nielsen and Manufacturer Carl Norgren, near little (pop. 300) Fraser, Colo. Most of the town was waiting in Fraser's dusty main street to see Ike and Hoover. As Ike stepped out of his car, a man grabbed his hand and said: "Hi, Ike. I'm Curtis Brewer from Abilene." "Well, for goodness sake," said...
...ranch a mile down the road, Ike barely had his coat off before he was in the kitchen starting on his big project: a two-day vegetable soup. Hoover, an accomplished fly-fisherman who does not share Ike's love of cooking, spent more time wading in shallow St. Louis Creek. Next day reporters were allowed on the ranch to watch the President sign the social security bill and invited to stick around and watch him broil a dozen thick steaks on an outdoor grill. Hoover ambled up to the grill. As usual, he was grimly hanging onto...
...county-by-county figures, Governor Crosby (who three weeks ago lost the G.O.P. nomination for U.S. Senator, largely because of the tax issue) found little to indicate that honesty is a popular policy. The reports were about the same as ever, e.g., in all of the farm and ranch country of Arthur and Banner Counties, not one taxpayer admitted that he owned...
When he gets sick of painting altogether. Albright taxies home to Chicago's fashionable North Side (his wife is Josephine Medill Patterson Reeve, daughter of the late founder of New York's Daily News) or goes off to his Wyoming ranch At such times of rest, Albright readily confesses that he does "not enjoy painting much. I go at it the hard way. with my eyes wide open. But I do like getting the results I want. I'd rather paint one good picture than a hundred bad ones. Anybody can paint bad ones-including...
...license. Despite several lawsuits, he was soon doing well enough to move to plusher quarters. He hired two assistants (neither of them M.D.s), within ten years boosted his annual net income to $100,000. On the side he plunged into oil and real estate, bought a 588-acre ranch...