Word: alfalfaism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic gubernatorial nomination will be between Frank Buttram, wealthy Oklahoma City oilman and political neophyte and William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill"; Murray, onetime Congressman-at-large and president of the State's Constitutional Convention. Candidate Murray, sometimes known also as the "Tribune of Tishomingo," played on popular resentment against depressed economic conditions, dazzled cross-roads voters with a promise to eliminate ad valorem taxation and substitute for it a graduated tax on gross incomes to get money from "the corporate interests (oil and gas companies) now leeching the commonwealth." He made a hitchhiking campaign throughout the state as "The Poor...
...Till Alfalfa Murray is Governor Bill...
President Hoover is one of several stockholders in Poso Land & Development Co., which operates a truck ranch-cotton, grapes, alfalfa, melons-at Wasco, in the San Joaquin Valley south of Stockton. There are no labor signs of any kind on or near this ranch...