Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought the new State into the Union in 1845. Sixteen years later Sam Houston, no longer a hero, lost his Governorship because he opposed Secession. Texas gave its share of men & supplies to the Confederate cause but, though the last battle of the Civil War was fought at Palmetto Ranch near Brownsville when a wandering detachment of Confederates overcame 800 Union troops more than a month after Appomattox, the State was almost unscratched by the fighting. After throwing off its extravagant Reconstruction Government in 1874, big, resourceful Texas began to boom...
Last week Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt went to Texas to visit her grandson, Elliott Roosevelt, who lives with his second wife on a ranch near Fort Worth. Between trains in St. Louis she talked with newshawks about her son in the White House, declared: 'I can't see why anyone should criticize him. He is doing everything he possibly can for everyone." At Fort Worth one of her first queries to Grandson Elliott was: "Do you think your father gets his swims every day? I wish he wouldn't miss so many." Then to news hawks...
...persuading juries to acquit under-worldlings. When he is denounced by an outraged judge and his brother (Owen Davis Jr.) is killed, Dix changes his ways, joins the Department of Justice as a special investigator. The gangsters, having stolen a large amount of gold bullion, buy a Nevada ranch with an abandoned mine ship out the gold as newly-produced metal. Matters are made harder for Dix when he becomes enamored of the ringleader's sister (Margaret Callahan), but he is helped when the "gold miners" start shooting each other...
...friends pass off the puzzle of the contradictory artist by saying he has a dual personality. Born on a railroad train in Kanas 43 years ago while his parents were migrating to California, John Carroll grew up in San Francisco and on his father's cattle ranch, boasts that he "knew" the Barbary Coast intimately before it was spoiled." He studied engineering at the University of California until his practical father gave in, shipped him off to study art under Frank Duveneck in Cincinnati. "After six months," John Carroll recalls, "I was sure I knew more about painting than...
Next stop was a friend's ranch in Colorado. The hired man they had was helpful, but "his wife always went out and lay down in the grass after she washed the dishes or did any work, because she said she was delicate. She wasn't a pioneer." Ranch biology they found engrossing. "A steer is a bull they fix so he can't give any germs to the cows to make calves." Neither Republicans nor Democrats could object to their comment on Roosevelt II: "President Roosevelt must be a very rich man because he gives...