Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Democrats found out that last fortnight's Oklahoma election did not mean that Oklahoma is Democratic. Last week Tulsa's city administration, Democratic since 1928, was thrown out. The new mayor: Olney F. Flynn, 48, oilman, campaigned as an anti-New Dealer, Oklahoma is still a border state...
Jennifer Jones (24-year-old, Tulsa-born Mrs. Phylis Isley Walker) was canonized by the cinema for her first starring performance-as the sainted peasant girl in The Song of Bernadette. As she took her Oscar from last year's winner, Greer Garson, the brown-haired, brown-eyed one-time Western player bit her lip, smiled and said: "I am thrilled and I am grateful." For his anti-Nazi stand in Watch on the Rhine, grave-toned Paul Lukas led the men. Other statuettes: 1) best film of 1943, Casablanca; 2) best director, Casablanca's Michael Curtiz...
Sugar Daddy. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, $10-a-week alimony payer Frank Mosley assembled 1,000 pennies in a bucket of molasses, dug them out again after a visit to the district court...
...post of Treasurer. Six additional then were chosen as members of the permanent Class Committee: Donald J. Blake, of Kirkland House and Rochester, New York; Thomas A. Caldwell, Jr., of Kirkland House and Chattanooga, Tennessee; Lawrence Creshkoff, of Eliot House and Philadelphia; Robert M. Hart, of Eliot House and Tulsa, Oklahoma; Walter H. Trumbull, Jr., of Kirkland House and Weston; and Richard L. Warren, of Eliot House and Rockton, Illinois...
...Tulsa...