Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voters deserted to C. I. O. candidates. The fact that middle-of-the-road Mayor Arthur B. Langlie defeated both labor rivals did not help Dave Beck, did not stop the C. I. O. invasion of his domain. Last winter, Dave Beck's Oregon lieutenant, Portland Teamster Al Rosser, and some 100 henchmen were rounded up, indicted for crimes varying from bombing to arson. Last week, Rosser awaited sentence for arson in the burning down of a box factory whose owners refused to sign up with...
...turkeys in Christendom could not have consumed the grasshoppers available in the U. S. last week. Westward from Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois to Washington, Oregon and California, northward from Texas to the Dakotas, the 'hopper wave was at its crest in 24 States. In New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle the probable crop damage was estimated at $30,000,000. In the Dakotas, the visitation was the worst in a long roll of such visitations (topped, since the 1880s by the Great Swarm of 1937). Iowa was not so badly off, because spring rains had killed the eggs deposited...
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Initiated with the Class of 1938, the National Scholarship plan for next year has embraced successful candidates in 13 states, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington, and Wisconsin...
...Oregon, Governor Charles H. ("Old Iron Pants") Martin, a retired major general and once a Republican, now 74 and a Democrat, supported the New Deal in Congress, was boosted on a Roosevelt ticket in 1934 from Congress into the Governor's chair. But crusty Governor Martin energetically sniped at Secretary Ickes' plans for Bonneville Dam, criticized the NLRB in blistering speeches, blasted "that miserable" Secretary Perkins, ended up by antagonizing both C. I. O. and A. F. of L. Not averse to tweaking even the Roosevelt nose, at Bonneville Dam last year the Governor introduced the gift-bearing...