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...Gusher Holiday...
...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 in on his Oklahoma land, made him suddenly rich. Nominee Murray, who boasts of drinking his coffee from the saucer, rarely bathes, and who said he would rent the executive mansion and live in the garage, was immediately threatened with impeachment if elected over Republican Nominee Ira A. Hill...
...stock; no oil has yet appeared. Said the letter: "This man Dahlgran through his power is to serve Swoboda and Swobodians. Dahlgran has located for me what he considers a very extensive oil pool ... and is positive that the first well will be an enormous gusher. ... I personally do not care for wealth for my own sake, but merely to aid Swobodians...
Although Indian Territory Illuminating Co., Cities Service subsidiary, will benefit from the gusher, co-benefactors will be Vince Sudik and his wife, Mary. In 1903 the Sudiks came from Nebraska, claimed and farmed the now-famed plot of land, will collect about one-eighth of the oil profits. Last week Mrs. Sudik was not on hand to see the gusher. She was visiting a hospital where her first grandchild had just been born. Said she: "My good fortune is having such a lovely granddaughter." Vince Sudik, however, announced his early retirement from active agriculture...
...lobby's very zeal defeated its purpose. Not twelve hours before the Senate voted on the oil amendment to the tariff bill, the Senate Lobby Committee had uncorked a gusher of damning evidence which fairly swamped the oil lobby's chances of success...