Word: oklahomans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Malloy, the chunky, round-faced Oklahoman who has put in four months at the Department of Justice as an Assistant Attorney General, announced last week in Washington that he was going to resign...
...proposer of this plan was Pat Malloy, dark, thick-set Oklahoman. He was born at Salix, Iowa, 48 years ago. When he was 14, a cyclone killed his mother, father, sister, two brothers. As a Notre Dame graduate he went to Tulsa, served two terms as county prosecutor, once had a murder conviction set aside by a judge who ruled that "the prosecutor's closing argument was so eloquent as to have carried the jury beyond justice." For 20 years before his appointment to the Department of Justice in charge of criminal cases, Pat Malloy busied himself profitably...
...Only recently an Eastern magazine defamed the character of a famous Oklahoman and paid off in damages after being sued for libel. This however, is not a sufficient nor fining rebuke for the crime of malicious defamation upon the name of the dead. It has been truly said that the only defense a private citizen, or even a public official has against a scurrilous yellow newspaper or magazine is the double-barrelled shotgun but unfortunately its use is a violation of the law and in this particular case the heart of the man who should use it had been forever...
...though to prove that not all is oil and Indians in Oklahoma, fortnight ago Tulsa and last week Oklahoma City brought forth some home-made opera, presented, staged and sung by native Oklahomans. Tulsa University's 83-piece Symphony Orchestra, which annually gives a series of summer concerts in a football stadium donated by Oilman William Grove Skelly, determined to present Aïda. Carlo Edwards of the Metropolitan Opera, vacationing with his wife's relatives at Sand Springs, was asked to direct. Tenor Forrest Lamont of the defunct Chicago Opera (TIME, July 4, 1932) was called...
Managing Editor Oklahoman & Times Oklahoma City, Okla...