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...When Calvin Coolidge used to be there, Will Rogers could run in and out of the White House without formality. Last week he was brought there by a fellow-Oklahoman. Secretary of War Hurley. Afterwards Will Rogers reported...
...Oklahoman at Harvard", whose impressions of that ethereal personage known as the typical Harvard Man appears in today's CRIMSON, can necessarily perceive Him only through the glasses of Oklahoma. The Saturday Evening Post, College Humor, and sundry, other periodicals who spend some little amount of printer's ink from time to time worrying about this same Person are also colored by their own personal bias...
Such last week was the promotion of Patrick Jay Hurley from the sub-Cabinet to the Cabinet, to replace Iowa's James William Good, deceased. His appointment by President Hoover approximated cabinet recognition for the no longer Solid-South, First Oklahoman to sit in a cabinet, Secretary Hurley is a Roman Catholic. Washington, familiar with him for less than a year, predicted two things of his incumbency at the War Department: 1) Though the youngest of the Cabinet (46), he will not be a mere Yes-Man. He brims with ideas of his own, will keep his chief busier...
...industry could well grant lower rates on current for domestic use, that such rates would result in greater use of vacuum cleaners, of electric irons, clothes washers and other household electric appliances, that rate reductions were always followed by pleasing increases in amounts of current consumed. Delegates also heard Oklahoman J. F. Owens, head of NELA's publicity, concede that there was "food for thought" in the suggestion that utility propaganda bureaus be discontinued, added, however, that it was vitally important that the "youth of the land" should be allowed to "drink from the running stream of current facts...
...Daily Oklahoman of Oklahoma City, Okla., largest newspaper in the State. Reason: Prohibition...