Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four years ago, after her husband became governor of Oklahoma, Mrs. Johnston Murray complained that her swollen right hand was nearly paralyzed from shaking hands with more than 100,000 persons along the campaign trail. But that was nothing to faze red-haired Willie (Roberta) Murray. No sooner was she well settled in the governor's mansion than she started holding weekly open houses, standing at the front door and clicking off (on a counter concealed in her left hand) the assorted Indians, oil drillers and schoolmarms who trooped past. By last count. Willie's tabulation had passed...
Oklahomans, who tend toward he-men as their politicians, have watched with interest as 138-lb. Willie Murray, a onetime concert pianist, grew to be a heavyweight in state politics. A year younger than the State of Oklahoma (which admits to 46), she met Johnston Murray at a Democratic state convention, has been a close political adviser ever since...
...First Lady, Willie has been an energetic advocate of Oklahoma industry. She furnished the governor's mansion with Made-in-Oklahoma products (to which she carefully called attention with small signs placed on each article), and even toured the state with what came to be known as her "medicine show" of home-state goods. Such boosterism makes her a real political threat, especially in this year's wide-open, 16-candidate gubernatorial primary...
Said Husband Johnston, after Willie's filing: "Mrs. Murray and I have counseled long and earnestly before deciding she should take this important step. In the final analysis, it was her decision and I concurred." His concurrence was no surprise to Oklahoma voters, long aware of Willie's influence. When her candidacy was first suggested last winter, it gave rise to the remark, "Why, she'd be the first governor to succeed herself...
After V-J day, the 45th returned to Oklahoma and inactive duty. At a convention in 1951, the 45th Division Association passed a resolution demanding that the division be enlarged to Marine Corps size, and that the commanding general be given equal status on the J.C.S. The Thunderbirds. said the association, participated in four major landings, and in more combat days than any Marine division, "in fact, as many as any three Marine divisions." The marines regarded this petition as in bad taste...