Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After attending fashionable Miss Spence's and Miss Chapin's Schools in Manhattan, she married aged 19. Four years later she found herself widowed, with two children, and on her way to homestead in New Mexico's Burro Mountains. When Copperman Greenway married her she was a full-fledged ranch operator. At Chicago, Mrs. Greenway. who shuns rouge & lipstick, seconded" the Roosevelt nomination, said that mention of her for the Vice-Presidency was "a purely honorary candidacy...
Died. Robert J. Kleberg, 79, longtime owner of famed Santa Gertrudis ranch; after a long illness; at Kingsville. Tex. The Kleberg ranch is largest in U. S. (1,250,000 acres), could contain Delaware, District of Columbia, Chicago. The deceased's son Richard was elected to the House of Representatives last year...
After visiting an electrical pageant at the Olympic Stadium as the guest of Publisher Hearst's friend Marion Davies and other cinema celebrities, Governor Roosevelt rolled off to Williams, Ariz. where he joined his wife, spent a few restful hours at the Quarter Circle Double X ranch of Mrs. Isabella Greenway, one of Mrs. Roosevelt's bridesmaids...
Next, without more ado or speeches, the Provisional President motored out to General Calles' ranch, got his orders. To date Boss Calles has been broadly friendly to the U. S., mildly hostile to private foreign interests in Mexico, firmly hostile to the Catholic Church. Some years ago he picked Second Lieutenant Abelardo Rodriquez as a good & loyal henchman, secured him rapid promotion to Mexico's highest military rank. General of Division and last year made him War Minister - a supreme mark of trust...
California's climate long since ceased to be news. No one knows that better than Arthur Brisbane, able newsman. But on his frequent visits to Publisher Hearst's ranch at San Simeon, and his own alfalfa farm on the Mojave Desert, he cannot resist rhapsodizing in his "Today" colyum over California sunshine, sky, flowers, ocean, mountains...