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Sirs: The front cover picture on TIME, Dec. 22 is the most inhuman likeness of Homo sapiens I have ever seen. . . . R. N. CLARK Ponca City, Okla...
Died. Ernest Whitworth Marland, 67, onetime (1935-39) Governor of Oklahoma, who made and lost two oil fortunes; in Ponca City, Okla. As Governor he drilled oil wells on the Capitol grounds, made the State some...
...Ponca City, Okla...
...Mansion, a handsome hybrid on the northeastern fringe of the capital, was something of a comedown from the magnificent $1,000,000 Marland estate at Ponca City. To make matters worse, before the Marlands moved in, retiring Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray had had all the grounds ploughed...
...Ernest Whitworth Marland. As a Pittsburgh law clerk he watched the Mellons found their fortune. In 1908 he emigrated to Oklahoma, struck oil on one Willie-Cries-For-War's land, piled up a $65,000,000 fortune, built Ponca City, married his ward when his wife died, gave his State Bryant Baker's "Pioneer Woman," and then went bankrupt. He always felt that he had been euchred out of control of his Marland Oil Co. by unscrupulous financiers and when in 1932 he was elected to Congress, he kept up a steady racket against "the wolves of Wall Street...