Word: winnemucca
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...major part of the burden of establishing a Harvard style of team play will fall on the ample shoulders of the 6-ft., 6-in. Hooft. Last year's leading hero of the freshman squad, the forward from Winnemucca, Nevada must change his style of play this year to compensate for the Crimson's lack of height...
...father was Patrick McCarran, who left Ireland as a stowaway at 16, joined the First U.S. Dragoons, went to Nevada to fight Chief Winnemucca's Paiutes, and stayed on as a homestead rancher. His mother was Margaret Shea of County Cork, who came to Nevada as a domestic servant. From his parents young Patrick Anthony inherited a fighting spirit and a love of politics. In addition, he cultivated a trait not generally associated with the Irish: patience...
...Result: "A bag of three cock pheasants which caused consternation because father was a game warden." Other early indiscretions, McCulloch reports, helped influence his present appearance. Among his friends were a tribe of Paiute Indians on a reservation nearby. When he was disobedient, he was punished by Chief Harry Winnemucca, whose method of discipline was to pick up the offender by the ears. "As a result of this treatment," says McCulloch, "both ears now have a tendency to flap...
...father and mother (who had borne Henry in 1874 in a covered wagon near Winnemucca, Nev.) had trekked to Flagstaff, Ariz., where the elder Ashurst went into the cattle business. Summers, young Henry punched cows, more often tethered his horse and strode around the lonely Arizona landscape, exhorting the cacti and the boulders, making speeches to the mountains, like Demosthenes on the beach. He was practicing for his chosen career. He studied law, at the age of 21 got himself elected to the Arizona Territorial Legislature. He served later in the Territorial Senate. In 1912, Arizona was admitted to Statehood...
...make considerable on a new mine. When his personal crash came, "King George'' had found others as glad to grubstake him as he had always been to grubstake the down-&-out. State Senator Noble Getchell gave him a half interest in a low-grade surface mine near Winnemucca where they are now building a gold mill due to begin operations about the first of the year. Board Chairman William Henry Crocker of San Francisco's Crocker First National Bank is generally believed to have taken over an $800,000 mortgage on the two hotels, held it until...