Word: lawson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behest of Oklahoma clubwomen, the State Legislature passed a bill declaring the redbud the State's official tree. One clubwoman, however, believed that the tree on which Judas hanged himself was no tree for Oklahoma. She, Mrs. Roberta Lawson of Tulsa, first vice president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, so telegraphed last week to Governor Ernest Whitworth Marland, who had not signed the bill...
...determined Oklahoma clubwomen. Mrs. Virgil Browne, president of the Interclub Forum, declared that the redbud and Judas tree "aren't technically the same," cited an Oklahoma City clergyman as authority for the simple fact that Holy Writ does not specify where Judas hanged himself. More deductively to Mrs. Lawson wrote Mrs. S. I. Flournoy, State chairman of the Daughters of the American Revolution: "I've heard of people hanging themselves from a lot of things, including chandeliers, but I should think if anybody wanted to kill himself he'd pick out something sturdier than our pretty little...
...degree of A.B. (Out of Course), as of the class of 1936, was awarded to the following: Rex R. Allen, Donald V. Baker, Jr., Thomas J. Cavanagh, Richard P. Curtis, Thomas H. Edmonds, Russell Grinnell, Jr., John L. Howard, 3rd, Wallace E. Howell, Edward S. Hutchinson, Frank B. Lawson, Bernard B. Pheeny...
Marching Song (by John Howard Lawson; presented by the Theatre Union...
...Henri, Sloan, Luks, Glackens, Shinn, Davies, Lawson, Prendergast...