Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Wesley Livsey Jones was driving placidly home to his ranch near Wenatchee, Wash, one day last week when on a narrow road his automobile confronted another from the opposite direction. He stopped as the other car, unable to pass, ran into a bank. Two youngsters jumped out of it, fled up into the bushes. Behind them came speeding a third machine out of which jumped two more men with revolvers. Senator Jones in open-mouthed wonder, watched them also disappear into the bushes, heard shots. Soon they emerged with the runaways, one of whom was wounded. Senator Jones...
...know whether I fully deserve it. . . ." A few days later Chicago's City Council ordered Anglophobe Mayor William Hale Thompson to invite Francophobe Mr. Hearst as Chicago's official guest. Marguerite Beery, wife of Cinemactor Noah Beery, who last fortnight disappeared from the Beery ranch near North Hollywood, turned up at the home of Los Angeles friends, telephoned her husband that she was safe & well. Declared Cinemactor Beery who had called in the police at the behest of worried Noah Jr., 17: "I want the proper authorities to in- vestigate this matter and prosecute anyone guilty of enticing...
Mexico. In the course of air maneuvers from Mexico's famed Valbuena Airport last week, a cardboard village was erected as a target for bombers. Mexican aviators mistook the town of Ixtapalapa for the target, blew up the ranch "El Arenal," the Ixtapalapa Light and Power Co., killed one, wounded...
...strategy of "soothing down" was brilliantly executed last year by Britain's great irrepressible Conservative, Winston Spencer Churchill, when Hearst Anglophobia was approaching one of its fever periods. Mr. Churchill crossed the ocean, tarried in Canada and in British Columbia, then made a special pilgrimage to the Hearst ranch in San Simeon, Calif. (TIME, Sept. 30, 1929). There he dined nightly with the Anglophobe, addressed him gently of England, her geniality, her pacifism, her friendliness to the U. S. When Mr. Churchill felt that the Anglophobe was at last quieted, he journeyed to Manhattan, ate a slice of Laborite...
...rain spoiled a rodeo at Miller's 101 Ranch in Ponca City, Okla. Turtles came out after the rain and someone had the idea of racing them instead of horses. Last week 10,000 entries arrived in poultry cars to race in the sixth annual terrapin derby at Ponca City. Their owners chalked identifying numbers on their diamond-panelled backs and put them under a big canvas hoop in the middle of a circle. Up went the hoop as the crowd shouted. Many turtles lay still, inert or stupid. Others began to move at frenzied speed but grew discouraged...