Word: alfalfaism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest of TIMEly truth, I believe one or two statements in your Alfalfa Bill Murray article (Feb. 29) should be corrected...
Sirs: CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR GLITTERING "TIME-WORTHY" CAMEO OF "ALFALFA BILL" [TIME, Feb. 29] STOP TIME FALTERED ONLY IN COMPARING MURREYS RUGGED HONESTY WITH THAT OF CLEVELAND STOP DO YOU THINK THE GREAT GROVER WOULD PUBLISH A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SEND BLACKJACK ADVERTISING SOLICITORS TO PATRONS OF THE STATE BOARD OF AFFAIRS ADVISING THEM TO ADVERTISE IN WORTHLESS MEDIUM AT HIGH RATE IF THEY DESIRE TO CONTINUE TO DO BUSINESS WITH THE STATE...
...indian. Her uncle was Governor Douglas H. Johnston, Chief of Chickasaws. Today Governor Murray still calls her "squaw" and her name for him is "Big Chief." They have four sons and a daughter. "Now the Negroes, the Indians and the poor white trash of Oklahoma have a Governor," exclaimed "Alfalfa Bill" upon his election, and the 172,198 Negroes and 92,725 Indians of Oklahoma knew he meant...
...marriage made Murray a member of the Chickasaw tribe and, through his wife, he came into possession of several thousand fertile acres of land on which he began farming. At this time he was tagged with his familiar nickname because of his persistent advocacy of alfalfa as the proper hay to plant in the short grass country of Oklahoma. Even today he cultivates the popular use of "Alfalfa Bill" rather than the less common "Cocklebur Bill" which his political enemies tried to fasten on him. As a farmer, Murray was successful and is supposed to have made several hundred thousand...
Come Back. As an office-seeker "Alfalfa Bill" needed no political introduction to Oklahoma voters. His picture was in most State history schoolbooks because he had presided at the Guthrie Convention in 1906 which wrote the Constitution admitting Oklahoma to the Union. In fact he claimed to have written most of that 45,000-word document. He had served as Speaker of the first State Legislature, only to be beaten for Governor in 1910. Elected in 1912 to the House of Representatives he was beaten in 1916 because he dared to predict that President Wilson, instead of "keeping...