Word: roundups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raises his hands in victory. For the first time in the show's history one cowboy, Fred Meyers of Okmulgee, Okla., won both the calf (20 8/10 sec.) and steer (24 1/10 sec.) roping contests. Rival of Cheyenne's Frontier Days is the Pendleton, Ore. Roundup, to be held this year Aug. 27-29. Queen of that rodeo will be brown-haired, blue-eyed Betty Bond, 18, junior at the University of Oregon...
...less spectacular, far more important than New York's rat hunt was the roundup of six criminals in an East St. Louis, Ill. flat last week. The capture, effected by State, Federal and local officers, ended an eight-month investigation by Post Office sleuths and other agencies. According to Patrick Roche, chief investigator of the Chicago States Attorney's Office, the prisoners were remnants of the now defunct Cuckoo and Shelton mobs of Southern Illinois. They were suspected of numerous bank robberies including the $200,000 Denver Mint holdup in 1922, and kidnappings, including that of Fred...
Although he remained in Austin and had no chance to use his new "Sunday gun"-a $300 six-shooter presented him by the citizens of Laredo-no one was prouder of this biggest Ranger roundup in two years than William ("Bill") Sterling. Last month he became commandant of the Rangers when Governor Ross D. Sterling (no kin) appointed him Adjutant General of the State. A lean six-footer, he is a graduate of Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College, was a lieutenant of infantry during the War but was kept from going overseas by powder-burned eyes. He has been a Ranger...
Shrewd, His Majesty determined to breed a new, better army. He sent troops of Arab slave drivers to beat the forests of Senegal for blacks. From the roundup, 10,000 of the most perfect men, 10,000 of the soundest maidens were selected, sent...
...this book, two young bums, Blink Thomas and Author Tully, drift into "a scrawny town in a Western state." When they unhappily encounter a railroad detective, noted for his extreme lack of sympathy with bums, their troubles recommence. After eluding the detective they stumble into a "sapping day"-a roundup of hoboes by embattled farmers-are forced to run the gauntlet, finally escape to a deserted "jungle" and fall exhaustedly to sleep, only to wake in the arms of the police. A heartless judge gives them each 120 days in the county jail...