Word: marlands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Ernest Whitworth Marland, who made and lost many millions in oil, became Governor of Oklahoma. It was a cold January day when he and his young second wife moved into the Governor's Mansion in Oklahoma City...
...Mansion, a handsome hybrid on the northeastern fringe of the capital, was something of a comedown from the magnificent $1,000,000 Marland estate at Ponca City. To make matters worse, before the Marlands moved in, retiring Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray had had all the grounds ploughed...
...industry a public utility but, while admitting that the idea had occurred to him, President Roosevelt indicated that he would first try a less earth-shaking method of regulation. Production control by interstate pacts, the industry's own nostrum now being advocated by Oklahoma's Governor Marland, seemed out as far as Washington was concerned. Senator Tom Connally of Texas, who fell over himself last year declining the honor of sponsoring the Administration's oil measure, introduced a joint resolution to provide the Government with a valid basis for reinforcing State proration laws at State lines...
...using brutality simply for brutality." declared Police Commissioner Theodore J. Roche of San Francisco. "It strikes me," declared Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz of Los Angeles, "as a little bit theatrical to stage a strong-arm act every time you make an arrest." Only Denver's Police Chief George Marland would go part way with Commissioner Valentine. "Dead right," said he of the New Yorker's dictum that police should shoot first...
...Minnesota * **Olson Nelson 309 of 1939 13,927 7,625 New Hampshire Sullivan Bridges 117 of 294 19,191 20331 New Jersey Dill Hoffman 702 of 3,425 15, 927 11,296 New York *Lehman Moses 5075 of 8947 1,533,332 663,918 Oklahoma Marland Pine 1145 of 3365 118,661 59,784 Pennsylvania Earle Schnader 4128 of 7956 780, 965 826,162 Rhode Island *Green Callan 90 of 232 36,417 37,446 Vermont Leamy Smith 89 of 248 69,993 14,501 Wisconsin *Schmedeman Greene 84 of 2914 4797 1938 * +P. Lafollette 5355 *Incumbent * **Farmer-Labor * +Progressive