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Box 6

 Container

Contains 454 Collections and/or Records:

October-December, 1932.

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 5
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_4_6_5_0000
Scope and Contents Photocopies of clippings. Topics include: Wentz-Thomas Highway Commission case, WHM's lakes and fish proposal, Hines' biography of WHM, state deficit, income tax bill, history of discovery of Oklahoma City oil field, and oil proration. Included are several cartoons of WHM.

1932

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 6
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_4_6_6_0000
Scope and Contents clippings with no month or day indicated. Photocopies of clippings. Topics include: road construction, presidential campaign, initiative program, general sales tax, reduction of crop acreage, permission to Pawnees to inspect records of the Oklahoma Historical Society, removal of Nelms, agricultural supervisor of the vocational education department, William H. Murray, Jr.'s visit home, WHM's review of the national guard, and removal of Ed Andruss, superintendent of the institution for feeble...

1933

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 7
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_4_6_7_0000
Scope and Contents Photocopies and typescripts of clippings. Topics include: early adjournment of legislature, state economy program, highway bill to oust commissioners, oil proration, distribution of Reconstruction Finance Corporation relief funds in Oklahoma, presence of Mrs.WHM at Oklahoma City Federation of Women's Clubs luncheon, legality of textbook adoptions, WHM attack on Pollock, appropriation bill controversy, reduction in salaries of elected state officials, pledging of Burbank Murray to social...

1934-1935.

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 8
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_4_6_8_0000
Scope and Contents Photocopies and typescripts of clippings. Topics include: appointment of Frank Buttram as relief administrator, President's health, Federal long-term mortgage insurance, death of artist Emil W.Lenders, WHM's leaving governor's office and returning to farm near Broken Bow, opposition to New Deal WHM portrait by Pierre Tartque, Association for Economy and Tax Equality, oil wells seen from governor's mansion, Texas proposal to swap their governor for WHM, and WHM address to Texas legislature.

1936

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 9
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_4_6_9_0000
Scope and Contents Photocopies and typescripts of clippings. Topics include: WHM description of education in early Oklahoma, Association for Economy and Tax Equality, WHM criticism of New Deal and support of Landon, Ernie Pyle interview of WHM, and Gore statement concerning WHM as trustworthy authority on taxation.

1937

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 10
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_4_6_10_0000
Scope and Contents Photocopies of clippings. Topics include death of Mrs. Sibbie Pierce, WHM address to Executives' Club of Chicago, poem "The Giants" by Caleb Beck, nomination of Gomer Smith for Congressman from the fifth Oklahoma district, bust of Will Rogers by Jo Davidson for Colorado Springs Shrine of the Sun and for National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C., four columns by Elsie Robinson re petticoat government, the Frederick Snite story, the presence of gentleness in mankind, and whippings for worthless...

1938-1940.

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 11
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_4_6_11_0000
Scope and Contents Photocopies and typescripts of clippings. Topics include: Oklahoma politics, FDR campaign visit to Oklahoma, WHM campaign for governor, death of Mrs. WHM, voluntary crop reduction program, poem "Cause of Our Present Day Ills" by J.N. Jackson, pictorial history of the run of 1889, death of Douglas Johnston, Constitutional Convention reunion, review in Congress of WHM's The President, Supreme Court, and Seven Senators, interview of WHM, and Kay County election returns.

1942-1948.

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 12
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_4_6_12_0000
Scope and Contents Photocopies and typescripts of clippings. Topics include: need for legislation outlawing strikes, suspending the 40-hour work week, and overtime pay, WHM campaign for U.S.Senator, elimination of political campaigns, appointment of Laval, limitation on salaries of war plant executives, criticism of Governor and Vice-Presidential candidate Robert S. Kerr and Senator Josh Lee, Rudolf Hess story, death of FDR, condemnation of Peron regime, publication of WHM Memoirs of Governor Murray and True...

1950 and 1982.

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 13
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_4_6_13_0000
Scope and Contents Photocopies of clippings. Topics include: WHM speech at Payne County Historical Society, announcement of Johnston Murray's campaign for governor, summary of WHM's career.

Undated.

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 14
Identifier: CAC_CC_041_4_6_14_0000
Scope and Contents Photocopies of clippings. Topics include: meeting of Camp Stonewall Jackson, unspecified party platforms, political qualifications of Cobb and Callaway, Oklahoma constitutional convention, popularity of WHM and Dr. A. Linscheid, WHM debate with Perdew at Re [sic],"new state" movement in western Oklahoma, lack of statement by FDR concerning religious conditions in Mexico, return of Father Coughlin to radio, cure for syphilis, Mrs.WHM as guest at Oklahoma Free State Fair and her denial of being...