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Oklahoma State Capitol, was shaving Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray when the Governor suddenly thrust him aside, threw off the apron, rushed from the scene. The barber had nicked the Governor's chin. Alarmed. Barber Riggs turned his shop over to Barber G. N. Glenn who, on order of the State Board of Affairs, finally paid Barber Riggs $1,200 for his franchise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 9, 1931 | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...Springfield, Ill., Oklahoma's Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray met Illinois' Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson last week. Later Governor Murray said he had said: "We have a world of moonshiners in the hills of Pushmatana County. If the oil ever plays out, we'll hook their stills to the pipe-lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Governor to Governor | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...everybody else's." Last week a small owner in Kettleman Hills, rich California field, denounced Secretary Wilbur for his plans to put Kettleman on a unit basis. The small man said unit operation would give Standard Oil of California a monopoly. Phrase. To scraggle-whiskered Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma the oil industry was indebted last week for a new name, editorial writers for a new phrase-"an example of occupational selfishness." Richfield Receivership. Concrete evidence of the industry's troubles was the passing of Richfield Oil Co. of California into receivership last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ominous Oil | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...Alfalfa Bill. A "common people's affair" was the inaugural of William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray as the State's ninth Governor. To the "Sage of Tishomingo" and the author of Oklahoma's Constitution the oath of office was administered by his father, Uriah Dow Thomas Murray, 91, a special notary for the occasion. Governor Murray put aside the baggy wrinkled clothes and red suspenders he had affected for his hitchhiking campaign last year and appeared at Oklahoma City in a well-pressed suit, with his shoes shined and his long, scraggly mustache trimmed. Close at hand as an escort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Colorful Governors | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

Oklahoma. In a Democratic primary runoff, Thomas Pryor Gore was nomi- nated for Senator, onetime Representative (1913-17) William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray for Governor over rich but politically inexperienced opponents. Nominee Gore, accidently blinded as a child, entered the Democratic party via Populism and Texas, was Oklahoma's first Senator (1907-21). Defeated because of his anti-War position, he continued to live in Washington, practiced law there, lobbied a little. In the November election he will be opposed by Republican Senator William Bliss Pine who was politically handicapped this year when an enormous gusher came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Makings of the 72nd (Cont.) | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

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