Word: hammondses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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State Senators snoozed through the Johnston trial. The citizens of Oklahoma City were so hardened to this form of political revenge that even testimony about Mrs. O.O. Hammonds, the Governor's "ewe lamb" secretary, failed to whip up their lagging interest.
On the first day of the trial, many a pair of eyes scanned the senate gallery and focussed on a middle-aged woman-Mrs. O. O. Hammonds. It was because of her that the impeachment proceedings, long rumbling and long delayed, had been labeled the "ewe lamb rebellion" (TIME, Jan...
"Are you sick of politics?" a news-gatherer asked Mrs. Hammonds. "Yes, I am sick," she said. "I am nauseated! . . ."
Mrs. Hammonds became Governor Johnston's confidential secretary and a power in the state. Her high-handed tactics with lesser politicians caused the Oklahoma Senate to demand her dismissal. At that time, Governor Johnston described her as a "ewe lamb about to be delivered into the gaping mouths of...
Mrs. Hammonds, when asked about The Ewe Lamb Rebellion, last week, said: "I have not thought about it." But L. Howell Lewis, astrologer of Oklahoma City, revealed that Governor Johnston had consulted him frequently during the impeachment proceedings. Astrophysical phenomena can cause no end of things "from short skirts to...