Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money is the mother's milk of politics, two well-suckled races are under way in Oklahoma and New York. Tulsa Democrat James Jones, chairman of the House Budget Committee, is being targeted by a heavily financed Republican effort. Manhattan's Bill Green has met a match as rich as he: Andrew Stein...
...majority vote. Oklahoma didn't actually repeal prohibition until 1959, and organizers on both side of the liquor-by-the-drink issue says most of the arid state is still very much in favor of being dry. The only exceptions noted are the counties including metropolitan Oklahoma City and Tulsa, which have grown rapidly (Oklahoma City 45,000 since 1970; Tulsa 35,000 in the same 14 years) with an influx of people--presumably alcohol fans--from the East and Midwest who came to escape unemployment and cash in on the oil boom. Soldiers at For Sill in Law ford...
History, so this is how it's made. One tends to think of history making in terms of treaties, crownings, facts, but it's the mind that makes the changes. Come November, a woman from Tulsa (Hartford, Butte) will hear the curtain of the voting booth shut behind her, and she will be alone with America and her own life. Another woman's name will be on the ballot before her. However she votes, her thoughts about her place in the world will not be the same again...
...first president, who resigned from the post in August amid a flurry of allegations, among them that he had charged $25,000 in home interest payments to the corporation. Just days after Thompson accepted his new job, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint against Utica Bankshares of Tulsa, a bank holding company that Thompson had recently headed. The SEC charged that Utica had violated federal securities laws in 1982 by underreporting its estimated losses. Thompson had failed to let other board members know that his bank was the target of a securities probe. It has also been disclosed...
...Tulsa jury chose a different interpretation. It sided with Guinn, and the court awarded her $390,000, more than the Collinsville congregation's entire proceeds for six years. "A wrong was made right," said a pleased Guinn. As for the church, Elder Roy Witten said, "If Marian were to come back tomorrow, we would welcome her with open arms and the angels in heaven would join with...