Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When told the oil operators might seek relief in the U. S. courts, Governor Murray exploded: "Just let 'em try to pull that old Federal court injunction stuff on me. It'll be like a jackrabbit trying to tree a wild cat ... Some of these quill suckers-said my action was bad precedent and that if I could do that for oil, it could be done for cotton and wheat. They don't understand that an executive order must invariably follow the law and there's no law to control cotton or wheat production when...
Cadillac. Quietly and without display last week Detroit observed its 230th birthday. On a hot July morning Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac beached his canoe there, built Fort Pontchartrain commanding the river, planted a pear tree which some say is the one still standing on the old Descharme lawn...
...damerikanische Bank of Berlin, rose early last week, told his wife he was going for a walk in the garden. When breakfast grew cold on the table his children went to look for him. They found the body of Wilhelm Tang hanging from the branches of a pear tree...
...Apawamis Country Club (Rye, N. Y.) in 1916, Charles Sutter made the par fourth 11th hole in two by hitting both shots out of bounds. The first hit a tree, bounced back on the fairway; the second bounced in off a rock...
News cameramen about the place caused the Falls great annoyance. One evening while Fall's daughter was watering the flowers, she turned the hose on a fig tree and doused a hidden camera. A disgruntled photographer let fly a stone that grazed the sprinkler's side. Police were called in. They found Fall sitting with a shotgun across his knees, ready to shoot down any cameraman who came on the premises...