Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iowa and Oklahoma were close behind with 14 points each, ahead of Iowa State with 13, and Stanford...
Byrd on the Floor. Most Democrats had flocked to Johnson's side with enthusiasm. Oklahoma's big Bob Kerr and Illinois' professorial Paul Douglas indulged in a colloquy designed to heap ridicule on the opposition. Douglas asked if Kerr would like to know why a part of the Eisenhower Administration's tax policy "is like the Latin verb aio."* Kerr allowed that he would. Smirked Douglas: "It is present, it is imperfect, and it has no future...
...Crimson's Jim Jorgensen lost third place behind Michigan's Jack Wardrop and Ohio State's Ford Konno in the 220 on a slow turn. In the last lap he came from behind to beat out Oklahoma's Graham Johnston and Pete Duveau for a fourth after Indian's Bill Wollsey...
...Candid Cameraman. Oklahoma-born George Clark started drawing at five, and at 16 began cartooning for Oklahoma City's Daily Oklahoman and Times. He became a staff artist for the Cleveland Press before he was 21. Later, free-lancing in New York, he thought up and sold a cartoon panel called "Side Glances" to N.E.A. Service, Inc. In 1939 he quit for a better deal with the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate. (With a new artist, N.E.A. continued to syndicate "Side Glances," which is often confused with "The Neighbors...
Ross Rizley, 62, former Oklahoma Congressman (1941-49) and onetime Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, was named by President Eisenhower last week to the Civil Aeronautics Board to succeed Oswald Ryan. First Republican appointed to the board (in 1938), Ryan became such an expert in the complicated airline business that he dominated CAB for much of his 16 years as a member. The appointment ended a muddle over Ryan's successor. Harold Jones, onetime CAB member, was first offered the job (TIME, Jan. 17), but the appointment was withdrawn after protests that he was biased against small and nonscheduled lines...