Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Born in Michigan (1901), Reporter Miller worked on his father's Montana ranch, started newspaper work young, as the "furthest thing from farming" he could think of. During the War he volunteered, raised his age by fibbing, his weight by draughts of lemonade before the medical examination. On being graduated from the University of Washington he went to Australia, worked for the Australasian Syndicate reporting post-War conditions in the South Sea Islands. After a bad dose of malaria, he joined the San Diego Sun, apparently for keeps...
Warren Gamaliel Harding, U. S. President under whose nose graft & corruption flourished, lay monumentally entombed at Marion, Ohio. Albert Bacon Fall, released last month from the New Mexico State Penitentiary, was a sick, broken old man at his Three Rivers (N. Mex.) ranch. He is sitting up a few hours each...
...aunts, uncles or in-laws members had been able to tuck into the payroll under other names. ¶ Tully Garner, the Speaker's son, down for $91.66 per month. A few days prior to the list's publication Son Tully, who tends his father's Texas ranch, was dropped from the nation's service...
California dust billowed behind a lumbering coach-&-four as it careened into a ring at the W. K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Ranch at Pomona one afternoon last week. At the reins was Captain William Banning, pioneer stage driver. Beside him on the box was grinning Will Rogers. Inside the coach, holding tight, sat California's cowboy-booted Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. and Cereal Manufacturer Will Keith Kellogg (corn flakes), owner of the ranch. Bands played, a crowd of actors, actresses, ranchers and California citizens great & small cheered as Mr. Kellogg climbed down from the coach...
What made the gift particularly valuable was not so much the 750-acre ranch or the $600,000 endowment that went with it, but the 87 blooded Arabian horses whose raising is the prime activity of the Kellogg ranch. Though probably not in a class with the studs of Prince Mohammed Ali of Egypt and England's Baroness Wentworth, the Kellogg stud at Pomona raises some of the finest Arabian horses in the U. S., has done much to improve the strain of western saddle horses...