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Word: skirvin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Death, as it must to all men, came to feeble, impoverished Charles Nathaniel Haskell, 73, in a room in Okla homa City's Skirvin Hotel. He had been ill with pneumonia less than 24 hours. In 1912, Governor Haskell, already scandal-tainted (as were to be most of his successors), celebrated the end of his term by borrowing money from the State to go on a vacation. The next Oklahomans heard of him, he and his family had settled down to a life of wealth on a half-million dollar estate at Glen Cove, L. I. Having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Oklahoma's First | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

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