Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musical development. But the Menuhin parents still hold first place as the wisest of prodigy guides. On tour they kept the family together for all of the 17 months, refused invitations lest the children should be influenced by hearing too much praise. Next week they will move to their ranch in California, remain in retirement for two years while Yehudi has time to rest, study, develop into manhood. If Mother Menuhin has her way, Hephzibah will never have an intensive public career...
Brig. General Pelham Davis Glassford, superintendent of the District of Columbia police during the 1932 Bonus March (TIME, Aug. 8, 1932), began a 90-day reorganizing job as police chief of Phoenix, Ariz., where he has run a small wheat & alfalfa ranch since his retirement from Washington three months after the Bonus Marchers withdrew...
Married. Anne Gould Meador, 22, great-granddaughter of the late Jay Gould; and Herman H. Elsbury, 24, dude ranch cowboy; in Cheyenne, Wyo., day after her first husband, Frank Spencer J. Meador, divorced her in Texas...
Back from Wausau, Wis., where the temperature was 35°, to Manhattan, Chicago, Los Angeles, other U. S. fur-trading centres, journeyed last week some 70 fur buyers. At Hamburg, 20 miles from Wausau, is the 12,000-acre silver fox ranch of Fromm Bros., world's largest breeders of bright silver foxes. There last fortnight blond blue-eyed Edward Fromm auctioned off more than 7,500 silver fox pelts for some $540,000. Buyers, fur-capped and ear-muffed, enjoyed their junket. From the Hotel Wausau they took busses to the Hamburg ranch, found free drinks and bowling...
...four Fromms all live at the Hamburg ranch, John, the lone bachelor, quartering himself in the warehouse. U. S.-born of German parentage, the brothers still speak German in the family circle. President Edward makes monthly trips to New York. The walls of his office are covered with family portraits and photostats of certified checks (largest, $1,300,000 from New York Auction Co. in 1929). On the dashboard of his Lincoln is a radio remote-control gadget which opens & closes his garage door and turns the lights in the garage on & off. None of the brothers smoke or drink...