Word: ranchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dusk from an afternoon's jack rabbit-shooting in the flat, dusty San Joaquin Valley, Levi Multanen, 33, thought of his nephew, long missing in the South Pacific. That reminded him how much he hated Japs. Passing the home of Nisei Charles Iwasaki, a raisin-grape grower, Rancher Multanen paused. He knew who lived there-a Jap. Impulsively he leveled his shotgun, fired four times. He walked home, feeling better. The Iwasakis, scared but unwounded, did nothing...
Miss O'Hara's story of the son of Flicka, heroine of an earlier production, should by all rights have made fascinating movie fare. In the novel, as indeed in the picture, Thunderhead is an equine throwback to his outlaw grandparent. The story is of a rancher's son who tries to win the horse to the ways of man, who fails, but dramatically grows up in the process...
...scene of all this contention is a beautiful, sparsely populated 222,000-acre valley, where frontier rustlers once hid out. For 50 years conservationists have been fighting to make it a park. But many a Congressman and rancher bristled. Their argument: the Federal Government already owns too much western land; Federal ownership cuts down State land taxes. In his veto the President rejoined: Wyoming is still permitted to tax private lands in the valley, and private grazing rights remain inviolate...
Investigator William F. ("Bill") Brogan, tall, lean ex-rancher and newspaperman, well remembers the look of the adolescents who were hauled in after the three-sided gang-fight. "They were mighty rough kids. Under the usual procedure, I would have . . . placed them in the county jail. . . but I herded the 14 boys into the chief's office and locked myself up in there with them, removed my pistol and coat. In the bunch I had two rough gang leaders. They had attained leadership with their fists and could have torn me to pieces. One was of Mexican descent...
...from the Chilly South. Juan Perón did not come from the aristocratic estanciero (big rancher) class, which has long dominated Argentina's politics and social life. He was born and brought up on his father's middle-sized ranch in the cold, windswept south-Argentina's Wild West. His early life reads like a Montana boyhood. He learned to ride almost before he could walk. For recreation he fought with the children of the hired gauchos, hunted wild turkeys on the southern pampas...