Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Understaffed. In Tulsa, Okla., Paper Boy Leon Stagg was told to put the police chief's copy of the World under his office door "to keep detectives from stealing...
...campaigning against the hypocrisy of Oklahoma's prohibition law, Tulsa's redheaded, young (then 32) J. Howard Edmondson won the 1958 gubernatorial runoff primary, brashly upset the Dry-favored candidate slated by the old guard Democratic machine. Elected Governor, he got prohibition repealed by referendum, went on to push for such general reform measures as legislative reapportionment, a patronage-free highway committee, a merit system for state employees. Still popular with the voters, he might have won most of his proposals had he not continued to snub the old political hands and to make...
...Wrong Vein. In Tulsa, Okla., the Red Cross dismantled a billboard showing Mayor James L. Maxwell donating blood, with the caption: "Maxwell-Good to the Last Drop...
When the Justice Department's trustbusters got an indictment against 29 major U.S. oil companies in 1958, charging a criminal conspiracy to boost oil prices after the Suez crisis, predictions were free that the trial would last six months or more. But last week, in Tulsa, Okla., after a trial of barely ten days, Federal Judge Royce H. Savage acquitted the companies. Said Judge Savage: "I have an absolute conviction that the defendants are not guilty...