Word: rosenow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unclosed Case. At Giles' trial, witnesses told how B. R. Sheffield, a professional promoter and former business associate of Giles, had bought Rosenow Ranch, a scraggly, 10,114-acre tract in Kinney County, Texas for $162,500, sold it to the state a year later for $353,000. Giles admitted he had raised the state appraiser's valuation of the land $5 an acre. L. V. Ruffin, a Brady real-estate dealer, testified that he had traveled in Sheffield's Cadillac to California, Mexico, Chicago and New Orleans to get signatures of eligible veterans who had moved...