Word: hammondses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sits at a desk outside the gubernatorial sanctum and asks people their business when they come in. Mrs. Hammonds and her husband, a physician whom Mr. Johnston appointed State Health Commissioner, moved into an apartment adjoining the Johnstons' last winter. Later the Johnstons took a house, with the Hammondses on the ground floor. Here, too, Mrs. Hammonds inquires the business of callers...
Some callers have been vexed by Mrs. Hammonds' firmness in denying them audiences with Mr. Johnston, have called her a "Mrs. Colonel House." State Senator W. M. Gulager of Muskogee has even called her a "she-Rasputin." And recently State Representative H. Tom Kight of Claremore, spokesman for 69...
The spectacle of the governor of a state so completely fallen under the away of his confidential secretary that a special session of the legislature is needed to remove her and unmesmerize him is noteworthy even in a day distinguished by such assaults on gubernatorial good taste as the battery...
That Rosicrucianism, with its elves, pixies and goblins, should emerge from encyclopedic obscurity to become the foe of the representatives of Oklahoma goes to show how changed are the public evils which the politician of to-day must be prepared to fight. If the state secures the removal of Mrs...
Mrs. Hammonds did not suggest the appointment of her husband as state health commissioner, nor has she suggested other appointments, not first recommended by men supposed to be friends of clean government. The resolution [to dismiss Mrs. Hammonds] was introduced by a Senator whose fondest hope is the destruction of...