Word: alfalfaism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost a $65,000,000 fortune with his Marland Oil Co., was the first gubernatorial candidate to step into the 1934 Democratic primary. He promised voters to wipe out the $12,000,000 State deficit, up oil prices, make capital investments secure. By law Democratic Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray is forbidden to seek reelection...
Making hay out of green cotton stalks was Chemist Hand's idea. Hay is good in proportion to its content of crude protein fat and carbohydrates. Chemist Hand subjected young cotton stalks to analyses, found them even richer than alfalfa...
...Haskell who had artfully persuaded 100,000 Indians to join the cause of Statehood. "That constitution is mine," he bawled. "I want to be Governor so I can enforce it." The crowd cheered lustily. Later "C. N." Haskell was elected the State's first Governor and "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, who also thought the constitution was his, was chosen first Speaker of the Legislature. Slinging a belt and a six-shooter around his waist, Governor Haskell took office...
Student Stephens demanded that his floggers be punished. The University's President William Bennett Bizzell ordered an investigation. The Oklahoma City newspaper urged criminal prosecution under the State "antimask" law. Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, who has often called athletics and fraternities "tomfoolery and idleness," exclaimed that "the modern system of universities begets lawlessness." He. too, demanded that the floggers be exposed and punished...
...declaring martial law in the gushing oil fields of East Texas and in jamming proration down the throats of oil operators at the point of his militia's bayonets. Although Governor Sterling's straight-from-the-hip action, together with that of his neighbor Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma, skyrocketed crude oil prices from loc a barrel last year to more than $1, he had to defy a Federal Court to do it. Three Federal judges had ordered the Texas Rail-road Commission to cease & desist from enforcing its proration regulations until the conservation...