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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was a hard birth. At the constitutional convention there were fights over county boundaries, dire threats against Alfalfa Bill. Afraid that the Republican governor of the Oklahoma territory would tamper with the new state's constitution, Bill-walked off with the original document in his pocket. To guard...
The convention had cost Bill $4,000 of his own money, which he had raised by mortgaging his alfalfa-planted ranch in Tishomingo in the Chickasaw country. Bill never thought much about money, and never got his money back. The suggestion was made in Oklahoma's first legislature that...
He showed up, ragged, half-blind and half-deaf, at the Dixiecrat States' Rights convention in 1948. Stubbornly he refused to let any of his four sons take him in.'To anyone who was interested he would give his still booming opinion on how the Government was presently...
In Moscow, speaking before a convention of the International Democratic Women's Federation, U.S. Delegate Mrs. Muriel Draper assured her hearers that U.S. bosses are firing workers who are married women. Said she solemnly: in the U.S. "it is a crime to work if you love."
No action was possible at the convention because of constitutional provisions, but a committee was appointed to study the question, and a vote will be taken by mail ballot sometime next year or at the next convention in the summer of 1951.