Word: ranchers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Right. The jumbled doggerel is from the Garner campaign song, Cactus Jack, sounds like the work of a political dude rancher...
...Garden while his wife gets the Broadway permanent she has been dying for. Some wives perform at the Garden too (almost all rodeos have women's bronc-riding contests). But the girl who made even the cowboys sit up-and take notice last week was a rich Texas rancher's daughter, svelte, 17-year-old Sydna Yokley, who put on as spunky an exhibition of calf roping as has ever been seen east of Powder River: throwing and tying a calf twice her weight in about 40 sec. (topnotch calf ropers rarely do it in less than...
...Paso County, Colo., a rancher appealed for protection from a WPA project to build one of 22,000 outdoor toilets on his place. Answered the Colorado Public Utilities Commission: it had no jurisdiction. Reason: outdoor privies are not public utilities...
Died. Murdo Mackenzie, 89, Scottish-born president of the American National Livestock Association; in Denver. Old-time Western rancher, Mackenzie became king of U. S. cattlemen, operated 1,000,000 acres in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, once scolded President Theodore Roosevelt: "You said you'd give me 20 minutes and you've done all the talking. Now you'll keep your word and listen to me." Cattleman Mackenzie never carried a gun. Said he: "I'm too big to do any gunfighting. Nobody could possibly miss me." His biggest triumph: the 1906 Hepburn Act, which...
...thousands, Technicolor, and saloon women's gowns by Adrian or somebody of the sort. But for old times' sake, you should like it just the same. You should thrill as Errol Flynn bravadoes to his inevitable victory, you should gnash your teeth when the bad man murders a respectable rancher in cold blood, and you should swell with patriotic pride as the covered wagons wind into the sunset...