Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allotted $1,000,000 for disaster relief in Oklahoma, battered by floods, hailstorms and high winds...
...tradition and legend, poverty-gnarled Indians who suddenly come into oil money-as in Oklahoma in the 1920s-throw it around in wild spending sprees, and the off-the-reservation Navajos have done their part to keep the legend alive. Near Farmington, N. Mex. last August, a Navajo family living on its own outside the reservation celebrated an oil-lease bonanza by throwing an alcoholic blowout for friends and relatives. As the party rolled on, the wife sent to Farmington for 17 pickup trucks as gifts for the guests. Finally, after a fortnight of roistering, the party broke...
...liked your article on Ramo-Wooldridge. In 1931 Dean Wooldridge and I had an 11 o'clock French class at the University of Oklahoma. We usually met for a game of pool between 10 and 11 o'clock. We were the world's worst players...
Returning to Washington after a ten-day holiday in Oklahoma, Senator Robert Samuel Kerr put a meaty forefinger on the mood of the reconvening Congress: "There's as much opportunity to achieve greatness by what you don't do as by what you do." Like many another Senator and Representative home on recess, Bob Kerr had tested political currents and come away with a spine-tingling shock. Around the nation at all levels people were hellbent on economy-and on not much congressional action beyond that. One senior Senator summed up his constituents' advice in seven succinct...
...unChristian tempers, words or actions and imprudent or unministerial conduct" the Rev. James J. Stewart of Albuquerque was defrocked as a minister of the Methodist Church last week. His imprudent and unministerial conduct had been to bring public charges that his bishop, the Rev. W. Angie Smith of Oklahoma City, had accepted fees in the form of "love gifts" for consecrating and dedicating churches, that he had allowed preachers to solicit funds for himself and his family, and that he had even permitted the superintendent of the Methodist Indian Mission Conference to solicit Indians for gifts of jewelry, saddles, beaded...