Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fergusons were placed on Postmaster General Farley's right at the Dallas banquet next night, so Amon Carter sat at the press table. The itinerant politicians went on to San Antonio, Houston, Uvalde (the Garner home town), saw a rodeo on a border ranch, then headed back to Washington. That, thought some of Amon Carter's friends, was where Amon Carter wished he were going, on official business...
...that the Government took a cash loss of $754,287 on the sale. Mr. Herbermann gave $3,500 worth of cattle to the father-in-law of the Shipping Board's repair officer, put up another $15,000 to save the same father-in-law's California ranch from foreclosure...
...opus which Director Sergei Michailovitch Eisenstein made in Mexico over two years ago. In silent form with a musical accompaniment, it investigates a minor miscarriage of social justice on a Mexican hacienda toward the end of the last century. A peon and his fiancee go to their ranch owner for permission to marry. One of the hacendado's guests rapes the girl. The peon strikes her assaulter, then tries with four friends to retrieve the girl from a tower into which she has been tossed. They fail and scamper away, pursued by a posse which includes the hacendado...
Argentina's one-man Government, frustrated old Hipolito Irigoyen, died last July, stripped of power and mourned bitterly by 150,000 poor followers, including many who called themselves Personalistas Irigoyenistas ("Personal Friends of Irigoyen"). Last week Irigoyen's ranch was put up for auction. A few "personal friends" showed up to buy his steers for $18 each, his horses...
...brokerage, real estate. Only he knows the full range of his interests, and Moe Annenberg does not talk about himself. He does not even like to have it said that he has made millions, but today, father of eight children (seven of them daughters, all married), he owns a ranch in Wyoming, "the show place of the Black Hills," from which like Hearst at San Simeon he rules a far-flung empire by private wires. He has also an estate at Sands Point, L.I., and this year he bought the magnificent Miami villa of the late Albert Russel Erskine...