Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fundamentalists. In Oklahoma City, fifth-graders polled on punishment preferences voted 34 to 1 that they would rather have a spanking than a friendly talk...
Almost everywhere, fuel supplies ran low. In Tennessee, Governor Jim McCord proclaimed a state of emergency, asked all citizens to join in a voluntary conservation program. In 333 Texas and Oklahoma towns, the Lone Star Gas Co. cut off service to all schools and factories...
There were some old and some new faces. Among the old ones were Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas (who had admitted commodity holdings but had never been officially named before) and wife Edith (who was a veteran of Anderson's lists by now). Among the new ones: Ambassador to Argentina James Bruce; Winthrop Brown, chief of the State Department's Division of Commercial Policy; Harry C. Westphal, secretary to South Dakota's Republican Senator and Agriculture Committeeman Harlan J. Bushfield...
...Oklahoma, which had jerry-built a law school for Negroes following the Sipuel decision, again refused to admit Ada Sipuel* to the regular University of Oklahoma law school. But when seven more qualified Negroes applied for Oklahoma graduate schools, a state regent urged that Negro graduates be admitted to Oklahoma-just to save the state money...
...Warren Fisher, bride of a graduate of Oklahoma's Langston University for Negroes...