Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reflected in another policy decision-the physical schedule of his campaign. He agreed last week to extend his personal barnstorming to Pittsburgh-because pockets of unemployment in Western Pennsylvania represent a danger to Republican candidates, particularly Senator James H. Duff. His newly announced campaign trip to the Midwest and Northwest in mid-October-with speeches planned in Minneapolis, Seattle, Tacoma and Portland-has a similar purpose. In Minnesota the Republican ticket is endangered by farm unrest; in Washington and Oregon he has given Arthur Langlie and Douglas McKay his backing for the Senate, and he feels honor bound to support...
...most obvious results of this policy are shown in the Pacific Northwest, where McKay withdrew Interior Department support for a high federal dam at Hells Canyon. Then the FPC ignored its examiner, who had found that a high dam would provide more power, more flood control, more navigation, and more recreation for the Hells Canyon area than the three low private dams. The FPC granted permission for the three-dam plan...
...Marx Brotherhood. Plodding on through the Northern farm states and into the Northwest, Kefauver worked hard at flushing out the voters, but was sublimely oblivious to the fact that his caravan seemed to be in the hands of the anarchical Marx brothers. Nothing seemed to go right. Suitcases were lost, people missed the plane. Top Aide J. Howard McGrath, his sodden cigar clamped in his jaw, once absentmindedly darted into a ladies' room; local leaders along the route were frequently unprepared for the Keef's arrival-late as it invariably was. There was something of the horse-drawn...
Notes on the Northwest...
...brick Georgian mansion in northwest Washington, where he lives with his wife Cynthia (a daughter of Davis Cup Donor Dwight Davis) and three children (Cynthia, 12; William McC. Ill, 9; Diana, 7), Martin spends his evenings poring over the financial reports that sprout in 2-ft. stacks on his mahogany desk and bookshelves at the Fed. Punctually at n o'clock, Martin goes...