Word: alfalfaism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remedies to up cotton prices while in North Carolina (estimated crop: 715,000 bales) Governor Oliver Max Gardner turned his back on the South and appealed to President Hoover for a special cotton session of Congress on the ground that the problem was national and international. Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma (estimated crop: 1,254,000 bales) talked about a stiff tariff on long staple cotton, vaguely praised "uniform laws...
...vindication, although they still recall the high of $175 a pound reached in the boom days of 1910-1912. The ostrich reaches his prime in three years. During his period of immaturity he is delicate, must be kept out of the rain. The mature bird likes alfalfa, builds large nests. Every nine months its feathers are clipped, a process which the tame bird learns to relish. Wing feathers from a male are ivory-white, known as Whites, or spotted, known as Byocks; the drabbish wing feathers from his mate are known as Feminas and Greys. Tail feathers are Boos...
Texas and Oklahoma are not independent Balkan powers. If they were, they would have been at war last week, with a frontier bridge across the sluggish Red River as causa belli. As it was, Oklahoma's bewhiskered Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray† declared martial law and called out guardsmen on his side of the river. Half a mile away on the other side, Texas' corpulent Governor Ross Shaw Sterling posted a detachment of his Rangers for military duty. The real fighting, however, was done in the columns of the Press...
...Governor Harry Woodring of Kansas, backed by the crusading Kansas City Star, in turn reinforced by Missouri's grim fight-loving onetime (1911-29) Senator James A. Reed. In Missouri Governor Henry Stewart Caulfield prepared to jump into action. From Tulsa came the encouraging yells of Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, recently victor in a similar but less spectacular fight against Oklahoma Natural Gas Corp...
...last week declared whiskery Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray as he signed legislation which made Oklahoma the 15th State in the Union to sterilize the hopelessly insane. Also included under the Oklahoma law were the habitually criminal. Affected are men under 67 years of age, women under 47. Thrice-convicted felons and insane patients in State institutions are to be examined by medical boards under the State Board of Affairs which is empowered to order sterilization.† Because the law is not retroactive, Oklahoma's 2,937 prisoners at McAlester will not be subject to its provisions...