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...Congress, where he attracted immediate attention by mellifluous, effective speechmaking. Last week Representative Josh Lee, 44, again proved his worth when he won the Democratic run-off primary for the U. S. Senate. Swamped by the largest majority (112,000 votes) in Oklahoma history was Democratic Governor Ernest Whitworth Marland...
...trounced Senator Gore last week had outdone themselves in promising handouts from the public funds. The vision of $200 per month for every oldster helped the Townsendite candidate, Corner Smith, vice president of Old Age Revolving Pensions, Inc., to finish a strong third. As No. 2, Governor Ernest Whitworth Marland won the right to enter a runoff primary July 28 by singing the praises of Franklin Roosevelt, pointing to his own State's social security amendment. Even so, he ran well behind winning Representative Josh Lee, 44, whose New Deal-plus platform included "a farm for every farmer...
...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...
Nevertheless the Governor's Mansion was well removed from that part of town which was ruined by oil derricks when the Oklahoma City field was discovered in 1928. In fact a law forbade oil drilling in that section. Yet one morning last fortnight Governor Marland was awakened by the monotonous tarnp-tamp-tamp of drills sinking a test well in an unprotected area just across the street from his Mansion...
Last week Governor Marland, now 61 and a bit dumpy, buttoned on his overcoat, went out his front door, trudged across the street to see British American Oil Co.'s No. 1 Piersol well. There they were taking oil at the rate of 500 bbl. an hour out of sand 6,000 ft. under the Executive Mansion. Even politics had at last placed Ernest Whitworth Marland on top of an oil dome...