Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baer was born in Omaha in 1909. His 6-ft. father was a Jew of Alsatian stock. His 200-lb. mother was Scotch-Irish. By the time Max was old enough to work after school. Jacob Baer had advanced from butchering cattle for Swift & Co. to running a small ranch and meat-packing plant of his own in Livermore, Calif. Timid Max Baer went home from school by a three-mile detour because his schoolmates had threatened to thrash him. His timidity was replaced by exaggerated confidence after his first fight. Max Baer's first manager, Hamilton Lorimer, matched...
Died. James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., 64, Governor of California; of a miocardiac disease resulting in kidney complications and congestion of the lungs; on a ranch near San Jose, Calif. Born in San Francisco, he gained fame and friends by organizing relief work after the 1906 earthquake and fire, became Mayor in 1911, served until elected Governor 20 years later. With a political flair similar to that of his friend "Jimmy" Walker, onetime Mayor of New York, he gave lavish parties for visiting notables, made appropriate speeches at prize fights. He always wore high-heeled polished boots (he bought...
...skillful at tinkering engines that mechanics visit his shop just to watch him, Miller no longer works on his cars, has not owned a pair of overalls in years. He amuses himself on his small ranch near Malibu Beach with a group of monkeys which he hopes will be the nucleus of a private zoo. The monkeys are named after famed auto-racers whom their owner thinks they resemble. Another Miller hobby is radio; he has a dozen sets. He has designed marine engines for Gar AYood, contemplated making an airplane motor until he lost interest in flying three years...
...name "Boettcher" at ten pedestrians and nine are likely to answer "kidnapping." Snatched one night in February 1933 while he and his wife were putting their car away, Charles Boettcher 2nd of Denver was kept prisoner 17 days on a South Dakota ranch, released just before $60,000 ransom was paid. In a Sioux Falls penitentiary one year later, Verne Sankey, 'legger, made a noose of two cravats and hanged himself just before he was to plead guilty to the Boettcher kidnapping (TIME, Feb. 19). Last week in Pierre, S. Dak. the trial of Snatcher Sankey's widow...
...Boston to make his fortune. He helped found New England Power Association (which developed the first major hydro-electric sites on the Connecticut River) and untangle Boston's transit tangle. Director in many a potent New England bank and industry, he owns a 200,000-acre cattle ranch in Montana, reads Greek for relaxation. He has been close to the New Deal from the start and his advice has been sought and taken. Of the millions of words which were mouthed at last week's session, his were the best tempered. Examples...