Word: marlands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative Ernest Whitworth Marland decided he could do more for the New Deal by running for Governor. In the primary last month he won a nomination that was tantamount to election...
...Ernest Whitworth Marland. As a Pittsburgh law clerk he watched the Mellons found their fortune. In 1908 he emigrated to Oklahoma, struck oil on one Willie-Cries-For-War's land, piled up a $65,000,000 fortune, built Ponca City, married his ward when his wife died, gave his State Bryant Baker's "Pioneer Woman," and then went bankrupt. He always felt that he had been euchred out of control of his Marland Oil Co. by unscrupulous financiers and when in 1932 he was elected to Congress, he kept up a steady racket against "the wolves of Wall Street...
...just that order the picturesque field of candidates finished. Oilman Marland got 146,000 votes; Speaker Anglin. 95,000; Commissioner Walton, 81,000. A run-off primary was avoided and the Governorship was practically handed to Mr. Marland when Candidate Anglin withdrew. Growled "Cocklebur Bill" Murray: "I've often said that men would take a cussing or a cold or a rail off your fence, but would not take good advice. They [the voters] refused my advice...
Representative Marland, who lost a $65,000,000 fortune with his Marland Oil Co., was the first gubernatorial candidate to step into the 1934 Democratic primary. He promised voters to wipe out the $12,000,000 State deficit, up oil prices, make capital investments secure. By law Democratic Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray is forbidden to seek reelection...
...young Pittsburgh law clerk Ernest Marland watched the founding of the Mellon fortune at sheriff's sales. In 1908 in Oklahoma he founded his own fortune when he struck a gusher on Willie-Cries-for-War's land. He built most of Ponca City, presented Oklahoma with Bryant Baker's heroic "Pioneer Woman" which stands at the entrance to his estate...