Word: oklahomans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consider the field of fine speeches you had to choose from. As a competitor in the first round, I had the opportunity to listen to a number of the entries, and there were several impressive candidates. I recall in particular a speech delivered on the theme of being an Oklahoman that was one of the finest pieces of oratory I ever had the pleasure of hearing. So you and the committee that chose Ms. Fingerman cannot hide behind the defense that this was the best you could unearth. And if you, yourself, are convinced that this was the best undergraduate...
Still, don't look for bars to pop up all over the Sooner State anytime soon; the vote to give Oklahoma's 77 counties the right to decide individually whether they will allow bars was extremely close--425,155 to 396,600, according to the Daily Oklahoman. And in fact, in only 17 of the counties did a majority of voters call for amending the bar against having bars...
...MOVE to change the law picked up support from two unlikely sources; the Daily Oklahoman and the Oklahoma Retail, Liquor Dealers Association. In 1972 and 1976, the newspaper, the state's largest, published seething front-page, editorials against changing the saloon restriction. This year, however, with the son of the old publisher in his father's place, the paper ran a far more mild exhortation against repeal on its editorial page, a move McCartney says "was definitely significant...
...interview with the Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, the President continued his recent criticism of the way the American press and television have been covering his Administration. Previously he had spoken to TV Guide of a "kind of editorial slant" in TV reporting of El Salvador that "challenges what we are doing there." In Oklahoma City, Reagan charged that the press and TV are exaggerating the effects of the current recession. "Is it news," he demanded, with a flash of anger, "that some fellow out in South Succotash* has just been laid off, that he should be interviewed nationwide...
...major task was simply familiarizing the public with the amendment itself. The Daily Oklahoman released the results of a poll showing that Oklahomans favored the ERA by a slim margin. In the same poll, residents were asked their opinion of this unidentified passage: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." Eighty percent approved, many not knowing that they were endorsing the wording...