Word: ranchers
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Born in Bisbee, Ariz., "Lew" Douglas got a decoration when he was in the A.E.F. artillery, came home and became a citrus rancher and copper miner in Arizona. He served in the House of Representatives for six years before his appointment to the Treasury in 1933. While his only previous experience as an educator was as a history instructor at Amherst College, his alma mater, in 1920, those who knew the family history were not as surprised by "Lew" Douglas' appointment to McGill last week as most U. S. and Canadian citizens. His grandfather was Quebec-born James Douglas...
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Clara Driscoll Sevier, 56, Democratic National Committeewoman for Texas ("The Woman Who Saved the Alamo"), wealthy rancher; from Henry Hulme ("Hal") Sevier, 59, onetime (1933-35) U. S. Ambassador to Chile, founder of the Austin (Tex.) American; in Corpus Christi...
Dubya-Dubya was a spellbinder but his morals were not above reproach. Still, he taught Danny several things before the law cracked down on him. Danny's next refuge was with a well-to-do rancher's family. The two sons. Hank and Steve, became his pals, the daughter his sweetheart. When the boys went back to military school, Danny went with them. And there bad blood began to brew between Danny and Steve. It came to a head when they had a finish fight. Steve won; the same day he was killed in a polo game...
Died. Patrick Burns, 81, millionaire Alberta rancher, board chairman of P. Burns & Co., Ltd. (meatpackers) which he sold in 1928 for $15,000,000; in Calgary. In 1878 he tramped 160 miles from Winnipeg to Tanner's Crossing where he staked out a homestead, sold his first two cows to the late railroad-builder Sir William Mackenzie...
...college Butler was a grind who was ashamed of being one, who prided himself rather on being a hanger-on of one of the best sets. He refused to be dragooned into the Church, instead vacillated a while, then let his father set him up as a sheep-rancher in New Zealand. There he prospered, in five years nearly doubled his investment. And there he picked up the first of his own hangers-on, one Pauli, a somewhat shady gentleman whom Butler supported thenceforth till Pauli's death. Back in England again, Butler settled down in London to read...