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...Governor of Oklahoma? According to the last vote and the general impression of people outside of Oklahoma, he is Henry S. Johnston, a slim, long-nosed lawyer-man with dark-rimmed spectacles. Mr. Johnston and his wife moved into an Oklahoma City apartment last January, when Mr. Johnston started functioning at the Governor's desk in the State House...
...Johnston has a secretary, a small, attractive, dark-haired Mrs. O. O. Hammonds, who sits at a desk outside the gubernatorial sanctum and asks people their business when they come in. Mrs. Hammonds and her husband, a physician whom Mr. Johnston appointed State Health Commissioner, moved into an apartment adjoining the Johnstons' last winter. Later the Johnstons took a house, with the Hammondses on the ground floor. Here, too, Mrs. Hammonds inquires the business of callers...
Some callers have been vexed by Mrs. Hammonds' firmness in denying them audiences with Mr. Johnston, have called her a "Mrs. Colonel House." State Senator W. M. Gulager of Muskogee has even called her a "she-Rasputin." And recently State Representative H. Tom Kight of Claremore, spokesman for 69 colleagues, addressed Mr. Johnston publicly on the subject of Mrs. Hammonds, as follows...
...Governor in fact. And this situation is alleged to be a daily humiliation to the citizens of Oklahoma." Representative Kight and his 69 colleagues were holding in abeyance a petition demanding that a special session of the Legislature be called to investigate Mrs. Hammonds and other features of the Johnston administration...
Retorted Governor Johnston: "Rather than see her leave here because of some of the things those fellows are saying, I would just put on my hat and coat, and walk right out that door with...