Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rice arrived in Oregon aboard a sailing ship, heard tall tales of Indian massacres in the interior, hastily re-embarked for Hawaii. There they settled on the island of Kauai. Last week a great-granddaughter of the roving Rices prepared to move from her Kauai acres to the biggest ranch in Oregon, whose 275 square miles include the site of the massacres that frightened off her ancestors. Her husband, big, friendly Frederick Warren Wichman, onetime Stanford University oarsman and footballer (Class of 1914), seven times Representative in the Hawaiian Legislature, bought the famed 200,000-acre Hay Creek sheep...
What the King Ranch is to Texas, what William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon is to California, the Hay Creek is to Oregon. Hay Creek (and the Bonnyview Ranch with which it is combined) is an L-shaped tract stretching 100 miles from the southern to the western boundary. The main ranch settlement is as big as a good-sized village. In lambing time the huge "maternity hospital" will sleep 3,000 ewes...
...were five of SEC's younger officials; gone Reginald Laughlin, RFC's assistant to the general counsel; going the assistant general counsel from the Treasury; gone AAA's director of the North Central Division to a packing firm, its assistant Southern director to a big cotton ranch, the head of its sugar section to the Sugar Institute. Gone after his chief was one of Rexford Tugwell's economists, to represent the Puerto Rico Sugar Producers. Said to be going are Madam Secretary Perkins' brilliant statistician, Isador Lubin. RFC's General Counsel James Alley...
...several nights each week), blows off steam at Buckingham Palace by rejecting a new set of designs for British Army uniforms. He chats about Polar conditions with Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, who afterwards calls His Majesty "cheerful" and denies they talked about selling the King's money-losing Canadian ranch. Edward VIII does the duty of dubbing an Indian politician knight (name: Ramaswami Srinivasa Sarma), and is icily angry when perspiring Mr. Baldwin rushes in, soon rushes off hatless again to consult the Cabinet, rushes back and confronts Edward VIII in their angriest scene thus far. The Prime Minister applies...
...three barrels of whiskey. When he found The Harrisburg soon after he became a partner in the company formed to work it, taking stock which he did not know was assessable. Author Coolidge hired Shorty Harris to guide him across the Valley to Death Valley Scotty's ranch. Shorty ran true to tradition by getting lost. They traveled hard all day, made a dry camp after dark, found the next morning that they had slept almost beside the spring they were trying to find. Shorty believed that Death Valley got so hot that gas rose out of the ground...