Word: mckaye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.S. Helena, a heavy cruiser, for the trip back to Pearl Harbor. The Helena's wireless crackled, and when the cruiser hove to off Wake Island, a helicopter brought aboard Ike's Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, General Lucius Clay, Budget Man Joe Dodge, Emmet Hughes, campaign speechwriter who is to be on Eisenhower's White House staff, and C. D. Jackson, boss of the Ike speechwriting team during the campaign. Meanwhile, Wilson flew off to join Bradley at the military conference at Pearl Harbor...
...Gordon McKay Laboratory of Applied Science, newest building in the University, is finished except for certain seiner internal adjustments. Albert Heartlein, Associate Dean of the Division of Applied Science, made the announcement yesterday...
Funds for the construction of the building came from interest on a 17 million dollar bequest left to the University in 1902 by Gordon McKay, an engineer-turned-inventor who accumulated a tremendous fortune from the royalties on a shoo-making machine he designed...
Family & Early Years: Born in Portland, Ore. of Western pioneer stock (his grandfather came to Oregon for the Hudson's Bay Co. in the 1840s). He was christened James Douglas, but dropped James when he was a youth. Father was a carpenter and young McKay quit high school to help with the family income. He delivered papers, drove a butcher wagon, worked as an office boy for the Union Pacific, ran a small laundry. Worked his way through Oregon State, where he concentrated on agriculture. In 1920 went to work as auto salesman, within two years was sales manager...
Public Career: Elected mayor of Salem in 1932. Elected state senator from Marion County, 1934. In 1947, when Oregon's Governor Earl Snell was killed in a plane crash, McKay announced in a characteristic way that he would run for the unexpired term: "I'm not mad at anybody. If the people want me, O.K. If they don't, O.K. I'm a rugged individualist exercising my American rights." He won. Re-elected in 1950 by 162,410 votes, he is now considered the strongest political figure in Oregon. As governor, he won a reputation...