Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Al Smith, 61, and Bill Hearst, 72, were 3,000 miles apart, Smith vacationing in New Jersey, Hearst on his California ranch. But, since both had broken in disgust with President Roosevelt, they were politically closer together than they had been since 1918. One morning every Hearst paper in the land blared out with a great two-column editorial on the front page. Men with long memories goggled a little as they read...
...late great William Henry Hudson's The Naturalist in La Plata might have come this bit from Mrs. J. W. Peiterson of El Cajon Valley (Calif.) News: "An old family horse belonging to the Marcks Brothers of Lakeside, and raised by them from a colt on their ranch above El Capitan, died last week. Last year he was turned out to green pastures, his twenty-five years of intimate and dependable service ended. Weeks on end, the old fellow roamed where he pleased and was seldom seen...
...also an inspired capitalist. Back in 1899 he launched a syndicate which bought up 862,000 acres in Lower California. He and his associates built Hollywood, founded a vast agricultural colony at Calexico which produced $18,000,000 worth of cotton in 1919. He owns a 281,000-acre ranch in Los Angeles and Kern Counties stocked with fine cattle, a 340,000-acre hunting preserve in Colorado, an interest in another 500,000-acre sporting preserve in New Mexico, is officer or director in 35 California corporations, including oil, shipping, banking. The whisper, "Chandler's in it," signifies...
...Mexico and the U. S. Southwest the name of Otero is a potent one. Once great landowners, holders in territorial days of one enormous ranch that extended from Pefia Blanca to El Paso, Tex., members of the Otero family have been judges, governors, railroad builders, bankers, billiard champions, sportsmen. During the era of Western expansion, they lived on a scale comparable to that of wealthy Southern planters before the Civil War. The first Don Miguel Antonio Otero was born in New Mexico while it was still a Mexican province, declined Lincoln's appointment as Minister to Spain, was instrumental...
...family after all. That's not much fun. There's nobody up there any more. We'd sort of like to get the boat in shape--scrape her down and put a few new coats of paint on her. We might go out to Wyoming to that dude ranch we went to last year. That was good fun and it sure makes you healthy. Dad wants us to go fishing in Canada with him and that ought to be good fun, but we want to be around for the parties on Long Island. We'd like to take a trip...