Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merous gambling-joints, nightclubs, dog tracks, were being searched diligently; his indictment was forecast before spring. Law & Order did not know where Scarface was last week. One report positively located him, heavily guarded, in a North Side (enemy) Chicago restaurant. An other had him sojourning on a California ranch, where he spoke to newsgatherers: "Don't make public where this ranch is . . . Federal raps are hard to beat...
Soon after the first Satevepost spread appeared last week, Copy-Writing President Kudner of the Erwin, Wasey Agency took plane to his 64,000-acre ranch at Carrizozo, N. Mex. There to ride horseback, there also to work on future advertising layouts in his cinemagnificent home which contains marble floors and doors transplanted from Chicago's oldtime Palmer House. Onetime office-devil of his father's country newspaper at Lapeer, Mich., Adman Kudner has been a concert singer, police reporter, magazine contributor, versifier, political writer. Framed over his desk is his favorite definition of advertising, a quotation from...
Oregon. Republican Senator Charles Linza McNary was obliged to leave his prune ranch, get out and hustle for reelection...
Zane Grey, wild west novelist, owns a large ranch on the rim of Arizona's Tonto Basin. On his ranch he had fat pigs. Last year Novelist Grey discovered that roving bears were hugging many of his delectable pigs to death. Since it was two weeks before the regular bear season opened, he wired the State game warden for special permission to do a little shooting. The warden refused. Later, although Novelist Grey pays taxes on two pieces of Arizona property, the warden would not issue to him a resident hunting license...
...pier. Newspapers reviewed his political past; emblazoned his most casual utterances. On Oct. 21 in Syracuse, Paderewski begins a nationwide tour of 72 concerts. He will travel as always in a private car (cost: approximately $25,000), take a three-week vacation in February at his 2,600-acre ranch in Paso Robles, Calif. His performances are bound to be uneven. He will bang on the piano unmercifully at times, hit wrong notes, distort the text. But Paderewski has never been a faultless technician. His instrument sometimes magnifies his colossal ideas but occasionally it fails...