Word: whitworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Ernest Whitworth Marland, who made and lost many millions in oil, became Governor of Oklahoma. It was a cold January day when he and his young second wife moved into the Governor's Mansion in Oklahoma City...
Representative Ernest Whitworth Marland decided he could do more for the New Deal by running for Governor. In the primary last month he won a nomination that was tantamount to election...
...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...
...would like to be Governor of Oklahoma. I will not be coy or indefinite about it," blurted Representative Ernest Whitworth Marland, onetime oil tycoon, last week at Ponca City...
...Titusville period, ante Rockefeller and ante Standard. It was difficult to picture these Philadelphians in the new order of things. The gods of the new independents were the Phillips Brothers, dashing Harry Ford Sinclair and his quieter brother Earle, Pennsylvania-born William Grove Skelly, cocky Wirt Franklin, lavish Ernest Whitworth Marland. Joshua S. Cosden who would bet on anything...