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Object of many an urban stare was the rustic figure of Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma sipping gallons of black coffee, chewing soggy cigar butts. He grew pessimistic about getting the nomination for himself but insisted Oklahoma would vote for Roosevelt only "after frost?and frost down our way don't come until after election...
...Governor Roosevelt's absence, Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, Oklahoma's roving "favorite son," entered New York last week,* had the following to say: "I'm not kidding myself that I could ever be elected President. No party would want to nominate me. I haven't got any money and you can't get the Democratic or Republican nomination without money. I never give up a fight but I don't seem to be getting stronger. . . . Who'll get the nomination? It's going to be an open fight with everyone...
...reporting to New York members of the Ornery Men's Club the acquisition of a new and noble member?Governor 'Alfalfa Bill? Murray of Oklahoma," said Clubfounder Volney T. Hoggatt of Denver. The Ornery Men's Club was organized in 1900 in the late Sports Promoter George L.("Tex") Rickard's saloon at Nome, Alaska. Original members include Rickard, Hoggatt, U. S. Senator Key Pittmann of Nevada, Novelist Rex Beach, Capone Attorney Albert Fink. Some qualifications for Ornery Club membership: wearing "good luck" galluses; finger-jabbing people in the chest while conversing; messing in the kitchen; carrying love charms; wearing...
Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray ordered Chief Charles Ambrose Burns of the State Bureau of Investigation to make a separate study of the abortion cases and report to him personally. President William Bennett Bizzell of the University of Oklahoma at Norman, some 20 miles from Oklahoma City, said: "The tragedies have caused grave concern at the university. I do not believe, however, that the university can become involved...
...that he is unfit to lead the Democracy. Last week at Albany he parried the Smith attack thus: "I'll tell you a funny one. A friend of mine called from New York today and said: 'Wasn't that a terrible attack Al Smith made on "Alfalfa Bill" Murray...