Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baseball players but travel on different trains, stop at different hotels. To relieve the opprobrium of their calling, which takes only six months of every year, most umpires follow more gregarious sidelines in the winter. Umpire Ernest Quigley, a National League veteran of 22 years, has a hog ranch in Kansas. Until recently, he also taught English history and mathematics at St. Mary's College in Kansas. Umpire Charles Moran was football coach at Centre College, developed famed "Bo" McMillin. Umpire "Beans" Reardon, famed for his raucous voice, is a Hollywood bit-part actor. Umpire George Barr is professor...
...adding machines. Later he was promoted and operated a tramp steamship line, finally became interested in Texas power companies. The system he built up was shrewdly sold to Samuel Insull before 1929. Today he owns hotels, ice companies, Mexican power companies, does large-scale entertainment on his Anacacho Ranch at Spofford, Tex. Jowled, powerfully-built, 53, he is suspicious of the Press, which he thinks mistreated him in London three years ago (TIME, June 26, 1933). To newshawks last week he drawled: "A Federal Reserve Board membership is not a talkin' job." He is rated a strictly political appointee...
RAISED in Hollywood discovered in Hollywood. This short short story of Joel McCrae's career sets him apart from most native born motion picture stars who nowadays go to New York to be discovered. Strongly influenced by William S. Hart be hoped one day to have a cattle ranch. Now he has a ranch of 1,000 acres and besides is a movie star a Bill Hart was once...
Ever since the assassination of his brother in 1923, Dictator Gomez has avoided the capital. Seventy-seven miles away at his enormous ranch Las Delicias he sat under a giant rubber tree, feeding peanuts to his pet elephant, beaming fondly at his squalling, illegitimate offspring, governing the country as The Meritorious One, a title officially conferred on him by Venezuela's Congress. For fun he brought famed Juan Belmont from Spain to fight bulls, played much with his favorite toy: a barber chair specially imported from the U. S. So many citizens hurried out to Maracay to reaffirm their...
...series of six Westerns to be released at two-month intervals. Its hero, famed in cowboy lore, is Hopalong Cassidy, created and kept alive in a score of Western books by Clarence E. Mulford. In this one Cassidy (William Boyd) is summoned by Jim Arnold of the S V Ranch to clean up a gang of rustlers. Cassidy brings along Johnny Nelson and Red Connors of Bar-20, plays a lone hand himself. Posing as a Texas gambler, he finds the gang's hideout, discovers that its leader is a cold-eyed Easterner who has been paying attention...