Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Clara Bow, 26, film actress; and George F. Belham (Rex Bell), 28, Nevada cattle rancher and film cowboy on whose ranch she has been living since last June; in Las Vegas...
...King Ranch. Congressman Kleberg's election delighted Democrats of the 15th district no less than it did those of his own 14th. It meant the Speakership for their "Mustang Jack" Garner. Besides, the Kleberg family are part owners of the immense King Ranch, largest single one in the U. S., which sprawls across 1,250,000 acres of Southeastern Texas and overflows into the Garner district. In 1925 Henrietta King, widow of Richard King, founder of this rural empire, died at the age of 90, tied her $25,000,000 property up in trust for ten years. A King...
John S. Clarke Jr. in the shoulder. Alex ander Siemel, jaguar spearer and expedition field director, got the injured man to their main camp on John Gordon Ram say's huge Descalvados ranch (it is as big as Connecticut), sent him by airplane to Corumba for hospital mending...
Left behind on the ranch, but to leave there in November or December with their collection of animals caged for U. S. zoos, were Alexander Siemel, chief animal man, who has recovered from an alligator bite (TIME, April 13) ; Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff, artist and general director; Floyd Crosby, first camera man, now busi ness manager, and his wife (only woman with the party) ; James T. Rehn, zoologist ; Vincent Petrullo. ethnologist ; Arthur Rossi, cameraman; Ainslee Davis, sound engineer; Uncle George Rawls. famed Florida cracker guide: and the dogs. The dogs, typical U. S. hunters, have contributed largely to the expedition...
What "Pat" Hurley did for himself, however, is known to every poor boy of Oklahoma. At eleven he drove a mule in a mine. At 14 he was cowpunching on Lazy S ranch. He worked his way through Bacone College at Muskogee. He studied law at night in Washington. He returned to Tulsa to make $15,000,000 in real estate, banking...