Word: oklahomas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cripple. Oklahoma's Mike Monroney was the first to object, protested that Knowland's plan "would amount to indefinite postponement, putting it on ice and avoiding meeting the issue head on." Answered Knowland: "I do not subscribe to the intimation . . . that we are a body of intimidated men." Knowland reminded Monroney that the Democratic Party had never censured McCarthy, though it controlled the Senate, when McCarthy was "very powerful." Said Knowland: ". . . Now that perhaps he has been a little crippled, it can do what it was not willing to do then." Shot back Monroney: ". . . If he is crippled...
...Your "Aroma in Oklahoma" [July 19] gives a lively report on the political capers of candidates in that lowbrow-dominated commonwealth. Perhaps a remedy for the odorous buffoonery which travesties democracy in Oklahoma and her sister states is to be found in another article which appeared in your same issue: the new government of Guatemala has deprived that country's illiterates of the privilege of voting...
...Oklahoma would restrict the suffrage to those who had something more in their heads than can be gotten from "country" music and singing commercials, no candidate would ask for votes on the ground that he was "the best damn cowboy singer in the world." Democracy should not be degraded to a device for the amusement of morons...
...Oklahoma. Oil Wholesaler Raymond Gary, a former schoolteacher who became president pro tempore of the state senate, clinched the governorship in a runoff election. Gary ran second of 16 candidates in last month's primary, but came from behind to beat fire-breathing William Coe. Biggest upset, however, was Oklahoma's choice for lieutenant governor: Cowboy Pink Williams, 62, a rancher (1,100 acres) who virtually rode into office on a three-letter word* banned from the mails as obscene. Last summer Williams got embroiled with the Post Office for mailing 300,000 comic postcards that pictured...
...England modern-day Yankees are indeed turning their hands to anything. But so, too, are the Hoosiers of Indiana, the Sooners of Oklahoma and the Cornhuskers of Nebraska-along with Texans, Californians, New Yorkers and Iowans. North, South, East and West, Americans have joyfully taken up a new hobby: "Do-It-Yourself...