The buck stops here?; Sooner (1889)

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In a message dated 10/9/2006 8:31:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM writes:

BTW, I'm sticking to my story that I saw a reference to "The Buck Stops Here" 
 on a little desk plaque in a story published during the '30s in _Our Army_  
magazine.  The fact that Truman's came from the desk of a prison warden  lends 
some credence to my tale, though a search by Fred last year found  nothing.  
The plaque was supposedly on the desk of a first sergeant or  company 
commander somewhere in the continental U.S.

JL


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Actually, I spent hours and hours and hours looking for this myself, and  
found nothing in OUR ARMY. Maybe Fred did, also, but you can credit "log in to  
unmask."
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I tried to look up "Sooner" for the "Red River Rivalry" game  
(Texas-Oklahoma). I'm not sure what I'd already posted on this, but here's  something:
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(OED)
Sooner

U.S. slang. 
One who acts prematurely; esp. one who endeavoured to get into  Government 
territory in the West before the time appointed for its settlement  (chiefly 
with reference to the settlement of the territory now known as Oklahoma  before 
the official opening of the area to settlers on 22 April 1889). Hence  (with 
capital initial), an Oklahoman. Also attrib.; the Sooner State, Oklahoma. Hence 
soonerism, the  practice of the unlawful and premature settlement of Oklahoma. 
1890  in Columbus (Ohio)  Dispatch 7 May, Governor Campbell..thinks it 
altogether too soon to talk of  1892... The Governor is quite right in declining to b
e regarded as a sooner. 1890  Congress. Rec. 17 Jan. 657/2 We  have 
recognized the fact that there are ‘sooners’ there.
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     _San Antonio Daily Light_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=rjxKODINVaGKID/6NLMW2rTRFPuzrETaPfa/aCe1NlYd/bWPI9TbKkIF+CsZYmrz)  
_Tuesday, July 23, 1889_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=oklahoma+and+sooners+AND+date:1889-07-23)  _San Antonio,_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=oklahoma+and+sooners+AND+cityid:25699+AND+stateid:94+AND
+range:1759-1890)  _Texas_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=oklahoma+and+sooners+AND+stateid:94+AND+range:1759-1890)   July special  
from Guthrie, OKLAHOMA, says The decision of tho lAND office  SOONERS" as thoso 
who entered OKLAHOMA, before noon on April  22 arc called, is OKLAHOMA as fast 
asthenews spreads. Two hundred  men were in line yesterday 
_Decatur Republican, The_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=W0CtXEq/mhWKID/6NLMW2ichUSAFdAoEWO2HaPEp+KfkDeDpg9xYn0IF+CsZYmrz)  _Thursday, 
August 01, 1889_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=oklahoma+and+sooners+AND+date:1889-08-01)  _Decatur,_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=oklahoma+and+sooners+AND+cityid:7138+AND+stateid:37+AND+range:
1759-1890)  _Illinois_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=oklahoma+and+sooners+AND+stateid:37+AND+range:1759-1890)   DOWN in  OKLAHOMA 
they have a new same for those previous fellows who rushed  into SOONERS" are 
rap- idly comiog to grief, AND are  learning to their intense sorrow OKLAHOMA, 
Dakota, Colorado ai d  all parts of the West, on August 6th AND 20ih 

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