Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Red" Phillips has amassed more legal powers than any Oklahoma Governor before him. He rides hard on the Legislature, shoos strays back in line, keeps them milling and mooing. Not once in his first year in the State saddle has he had to head off a stampede...
What "Big Red" says, goes. Oklahoma is constitutionally bone-dry, but licenses 3.2 beer, which is dispensed in the subterranean cafeteria of the domeless State House. But "Big Red" mortally hates liquor, fires out of hand employes who drink on duty. If you were to order beer in the State House cafeteria this week, chances are the waitress would ask guardedly: "Do you want it in a paper cup?" If you were a State employe, you'd say "Yes." She would keep the bottle out of sight and you'd pick up some mints...
...estimate law." His budget officer, R. R. Owens, a white-topped, soft-answering little Welshman, combs through estimates submitted in advance each quarter, snips off dollars here and there. The two pinchfists, old fighters for economy in government, specialize in slashing salaries. The Senate had given up to "Big Red" its jealously hoarded powers, let him fire appointees pointblank. With these weapons, the Governor...
Last week State Auditor Frank Carter reported that "Big Red" had cut State expenditures $1,570,000 below appropriations since last July 1, that savings should total $3,400,000 by the fiscal year...
Because its red sandstone ramparts rise 200 ft. above the tide line, in contrast to the sandy flatness of all other islands off Germany's northeast coast, the roost of Lieut. Colonel Schumacher and his merry men was called Hillige ("Holy") Land by the ancient Frisians. Britain took it from Denmark and later traded it to Germany in exchange for Zanzibar. In 1914-18 Helgoland, as an advanced fleet base, fortified and protected by mine fields, gave Britain so much trouble that she afterwards insisted upon dismantling it. Her engineers spent three years blowing up its forts and moles...