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" Forty years a legislator / "
Elmer Thomas ; edited by Richard Lowitt and Carolyn G. Hanneman ; foreword by Cindy Simon Rosenthal.
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988693
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b743063
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Thomas, Elmer,1876-1965.
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Forty years a legislator /\ Elmer Thomas ; edited by Richard Lowitt and Carolyn G. Hanneman ; foreword by Cindy Simon Rosenthal.
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Norman :: University of Oklahoma Press,, ©2007.
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xxi, 178 pages :: illustrations, portraits ;; 23 cm
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0806138092
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: 9780806138091
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173) and index.
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| Contents
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Getting Established in the Territory -- Located at Lawton -- Oklahoma State Senator, 1907-1920 -- Election of First Oklahoma United States Senators -- Congressman from Oklahoma, 1923-1927 -- Red River Lands -- Irrigation in Oklahoma -- Grand River Dam -- Flood Control through Dams and Reservoirs Is an Oklahoma Plan -- Sale of Choctaw-Chickasaw Coal-Asphalt Deposits -- Forty-Hour Week -- Public Roads across Indian Reservations in Minnesota and Oklahoma -- Bonus for Veterans -- Effort to Help Oil Workers -- Plan to Relieve Depression: My Paramount Accomplishment -- The War Years -- Legislative History of the Atomic Bomb -- Funds Used for the Manhattan Project -- Congressional Junkets -- Nürnberg -- Trip to Investigate the Expenditure of Marshall Plan Appropriations -- Why I Entered Public Service: Retirement Reflections.
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"Elmer Thomas (1876-1965) represented the people of Oklahoma in the state's first legislature and in Congress. This memoir, written shortly after he left the U.S. Senate in 1951 but never before published, chronicles his long career and offers a wealth of information on people and events that helped shape the development of the state and the course of American history."
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"Thomas's panoramic look at the issues of his time ranges from flood control dams and the forty-hour work week to America's preparedness for war in 1940 and the Marshall Plan. He provides a behind-the-scenes view of the Nurnberg War Crimes Trial. And he tells how he had to push funding for the atomic bomb project through Congress without disclosing its true nature."--Jacket.
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"When Oklahoma entered the Union in 1907, Thomas became one of Oklahoma's first state senators and was involved with financing the construction of public works. In Washington, he made it his business to understand the Federal Reserve System, and as the farm crisis of the 1920s worsened during the Great Depression, he consistently argued for inflating the currency to stimulate the economy - a struggle that became central to his career and that he eventually won."
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Thomas, Elmer,1876-1965.
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Thomas, Elmer,1876-1965.
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United States.
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United States.
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United States.
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United States.
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Legislators-- Oklahoma, Biography.
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Legislators-- United States, Biography.
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Legislators.
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Politics and government
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Oklahoma, Politics and government, 1907-
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United States, Politics and government, 1919-1933.
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United States, Politics and government, 1933-1945.
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United States, Politics and government, 1945-1953.
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Oklahoma.
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United States.
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328.73092
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B
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E748.T475A3 2007
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Hanneman, Carolyn G.,1950-
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Lowitt, Richard,1922-
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Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center., Congressional Archives.
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