Word: marlands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Oklahoma rumbled the Roosevelt special. There, silver-crowned Senator Elmer Thomas is engaged in a three-cornered fight with oil-rich Governor Ernest Marland and Indian-blooded Representative Gomer Smith. To potent Governor Marland the President was most polite. Upon Gomer Smith, loud exploiter of Townsend Plan promises, he cracked down by inference, quoting Roosevelt I on the "lunatic fringe." Senator Thomas was allowed to ride on the Presidential train (but so was Governor Marland), was called "my old friend," described as "of enormous help ... in keeping me advised as to the needs of the State...
...price up again. When NRA went out, oilmen relied on proration: no well in the East Texas field was allowed to run off more than a fixed amount (now an average of 20 barrels a day), and an Interstate Oil Compact, promoted by Oklahoma's Governor Ernest Marland, spread production control to six States-Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Illinois. Carefully the price was built back...
...Marland P. Billings, assistant professor of Geology, is supervising the work of various Harvard field workers. His tour of supervision will take him to New Hampshire, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada. Kirk Bryan, associate professor of Physiography, will also be doing supervising work in Minnesota and New Mexico...
...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...
...Governor Marland. perplexed, fearful that there were political pitfalls in the redbud bill, said he was giving it his "mature judgment...