Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time, Eisenhower's campaign was steadily expanding. His decision to speak this week in Virginia, Texas, Oklahoma and Tennessee (as well as Florida and Pennsylvania, which were already leaning his way) indicated that he is ready to battle right down to the line for at least four states that a few weeks ago were rated solid for Stevenson. From state after state came reports that Ike was holding, or even increasing, his vote among women. The much-publicized farm revolt appeared moribund. Negro shifts to Eisenhower were indicated in such states as New York, Maryland and Delaware. Pollster...
...Oklahoma: The drought hurts Ike. Adlai is the probable winner...
Dispatched Heckler. Returning to Washington, Ike next day headed a National Security Council meeting, prepared campaign treks: a one-day sortie into Virginia and Florida, another to Tennessee, Texas and Oklahoma. Meanwhile, the White House neatly dispatched a heckler. Columnist Drew Pearson's report that Ike had suffered a relapse in Minneapolis during his swing last fortnight (see PRESS) was categorically denied by Press Secretary James Hagerty, and later by scores of Minneapolis officials and police guards who shook hands with Ike just before his departure. At week's end the President entered Walter Reed Hospital...
...Michigan State is ineligible as last year's winner.) Penn State, throttling Ohio State's vaunted ground attack (which had averaged 333 yds. a game in victories over Nebraska, Stanford and Illinois), scored the upset of the week with a slim but well-earned 7-6 victory. Oklahoma, which had not been scored on in eight regular season games, was momentarily startled when Kansas matched its first-period touchdown, later turned on its explosive power to win its 34th straight game by a score...
Died. William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, 86, walrus-mustached, stogiechomping, classics-quoting onetime (1931-35) governor of Oklahoma, two-term (1913-17) Congressman, who carried his lunch to work, planted chickpeas on the lawn of the governor's mansion, called out the National Guard to successfully defy Texas and a federal court by closing a Red River toll bridge during a legal hassle, next month used militia again to shut down Oklahoma's gushing oilfields until purchasers raised their bids to private well owners; after a stroke; in Oklahoma City. He campaigned ("Bread and Butter, Bacon and Beans...