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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...
...heavy in the night-shadowed streets, until September, when there is already a crisp tang in the air, we take long night rides through the black and silver of a moonlit countryside. Five minutes from the city, in any of three directions, we ride among irrigated fields cf alfalfa or cotton, orchards of citrus or other fruits, emerald grape vines, whence a cool moist breath rises in the summer air. . . . THELMA B. MILLER (MRS. Ross C. MILLER) Bakersfield, Calif...
...best steer of the exposition was California Stamp, raised by students at the University of California. It weighed 1,055 pounds, accumulated by feeding on barley, oats, bran & alfalfa. The New Bismarck Hotel, Chicago, paid $2.35 a pound for California Stamp, to slaughter him for its Christmas dinners. Last year's champion fat steer, Rupert B., brought $3.60 a pound on the hoof, highest price ever paid...