Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Object of many an urban stare was the rustic figure of Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma sipping gallons of black coffee, chewing soggy cigar butts. He grew pessimistic about getting the nomination for himself but insisted Oklahoma would vote for Roosevelt only "after frost?and frost down our way don't come until after election...
...Snell had told the "newspaper boys" that in all probability Dr. Joseph Irwin France, sole Hoover opponent for the Presidency, would not be allowed inside the Stadium. But there would be a struggle worth watching, thought observers, when the Prohibition section of the platform came to the floor. Nicholas Murray Butler and tall, white- maned Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut had promised to pit their minority Repeal plank against the Administration's Revision proposal, over which the Resolutions Committee had been toiling for 24 hours...
...stop Roosevelt will require at least 385 votes, one-third of the convention. Delegations pledged to John Nance Gar ner, James Hamilton Lewis, George White. James A. Reed, William Henry Murray, Albert Cabell Ritchie and Harry Flood Byrd, plus his own vote, totaled 392. Could Al Smith hold the line with such a paper-thin margin? The Roosevelt men scoffed the idea...
...been the selfsame brainy little cranium of Don Carlos Guillermo Davila, onetime Chilean Ambassador at Washington. Thus the situation at Santiago was comparatively stable last week. Censorship had been clamped down tighter than ever and a state of siege declared. Outgoing telephone calls in English were censored by William Murray, Negro, onetime U. S. boxer. Negro Murray, owner of a gymnasium, enjoys the confidence of Santiago's elite and is not identified with "Yankee Imperialism...
...John Davison Rockefeller Jr. People all over the land were excited because he had regretfully abandoned the Cause which he and his father & mother had supported with speech, prayer and at least $434,000. From Tarrytown to Tallahassee and Tacoma the news had flashed when he publicly endorsed Nicholas Murray Butler's call for out-&-out repeal of Prohibition (TIME, June...