Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before that (1911-17) he was chairman of the State finance body which put California on a budget. For eleven years he has been a regent of the University of California. He is a director of great National City Bank (Manhattan). Nowadays he commutes to San Francisco from his ranch in the mountains to the south. Last fortnight Jack Neylan appeared before a patriotic meeting on San Francisco's Treasure Island and, well aware that he was sticking out his neck, suggested...
This exhibition, besides being rich in almost every department of art (TIME, March 6), surprised the authorities by drawing 169,260 visitors at 25? each up to April 15 (the Sally Rand Dnude Ranch drew 228,356). Sharp-eyed Guard Seymour nevertheless found plenty to criticize from the standpoint of the common man, whom he denominated Joe Bloake and furnished with a wife and four children. Main points...
...want you to understand there's no nudity in our show; we're not running anything like that Rand woman's ranch. We've got 156 beautiful Aquagals here, and they all wear something," Eleanor ("Aquabelle") Holm said in an interview on the opening day of the World's Fair...
Slim, weatherbeaten Shannon Davidson was the first rider to reach San Francisco. At a pipsqueak reception on Treasure Island he collected the only prize, $750, and headed for home. Day or two later other contestants began to clatter in. One ranch hand, lost, tethered his horse in front of the San Francisco Stock Exchange. All were stony broke...
...California, they become undeceived. The third of a million new arrivals are herded, persecuted, and starved into working in the fruit and cotton fields for mere crusts of bread. As Ma and their sometime preacher Casy say, it is only their anger that keeps them on their feet. The ranch owners thereby store up for themselves the ripening grapes of wrath that seem bound to ferment and burst into a fury of action by the people...