Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Majority Leader Sam Rayburn of Texas had vowed he would not sign the petition. His was the 203rd name on the list. Cried Mrs. Norton: "It's all over now!" Eight Louisiana Democrats followed Mr. Rayburn. Oregon's Nan Honeyman was the 217th, leaving the honor of completing the list to Louisiana's Robert Mouton. Then Mr. Mouton stepped over to Mrs. Norton, gallantly kissed her hand...
...which is now worth roughly $8,000,000,000 in real estate, was purchased from the Indians for $24 worth of beads and trinkets. In 1803, France's Louisiana Territory (827,987 sq. mi.) cost a monstrous $15,000,000. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court awarded Oregon's Klamath and Modoc Indians and the Yahooshin band of Snakes $5,313,347 for an area one six-thousandth the size of the Louisiana Territory, inhabited by one one-thousandth as many people as Manhattan now holds. Reason...
...Oregon Central Military Road Co. received a land grant for one of its roads, the building of which was accomplished "simply by driving an ox-cart over the country while two men trudged along behind with shovels on their shoulders." The grant, by an oversight, included 111,385 acres reserved to the Indians by a treaty of the same year. In 1906 the U. S. Government made partial compensation (24,000 acres) for this mistake, was last week ordered to pay cash for the rest. The Klamath Indian Reservation, potentially the richest community in the world -each brave, squaw...
...months of dangerous climbing through unexplored mountains for two hours on a mountain peak was the announced plan of H. Bradford Washburn '33, as he left Cambridge Sunday for Portland, Oregon, to take ship for Alaska...
...converting Frankie's exploit into a torchy part of the St. Louis saga, but Britt's mother somehow influenced them to leave her son's real name out of it. In the face of the publicity, Frankie fled St. Louis. To Kansas City, to Portland, Oregon, the song still pursued her. When eventually it began blaring out of the radio, she went a-lawing. By last week she was suing, among others, Mae West, Paramount Pictures, Republic Pictures, Robbins Music Corp. Her complaint: defamation of character; invasion of the right of privacy...