Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle of the 19th Century a roving U. S. couple named Rice arrived in Oregon aboard a sailing ship, heard tall tales of Indian massacres in the interior, hastily re-embarked for Hawaii. There they settled on the island of Kauai. Last week a great-granddaughter of the roving Rices prepared to move from her Kauai acres to the biggest ranch in Oregon, whose 275 square miles include the site of the massacres that frightened off her ancestors. Her husband, big, friendly Frederick Warren Wichman, onetime Stanford University oarsman and footballer (Class of 1914), seven times Representative in the Hawaiian...
...until just before the World War did the unicameral idea get under way. Between 1913 and 1917 the Governors of Arizona, California, Kansas, Minnesota, Washington and South Dakota all recommended it. Constitutional conventions in Ohio and New York toyed with it. The people voted it down in Oregon, Oklahoma, Arizona. In Nebraska a joint legislative committee recommended it in 1915, nothing was done...
Solidly backed by his vice-chairmen- Connecticut's longtime Boss John Henry Roraback. Oregon's Ralph E. Williams, rich and buxom Mrs. Worthington Scranton of Pennsylvania and Mrs. John E. Hillman of Colorado-Chairman Hamilton did not rise to the Fish bait. On his own behalf he said only: "I have no particular defense to make of the last campaign. There were lots of errors, but I said at the start there would...
...Also north to Oregon stretched the Giannini hand last week for three little banks with total resources...
...vacation in Monticello, Fla. went Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. "Are you going to catch any fish?" asked a newshawk. Replied the Governor: "I've got a lot more chance than I had in the last campaign." Bedded in a Denver hospital, Oregon's eloquent Senator Frederick ("Three Long Years") Steiwer lamented the loss of "a good audience" of Senate Republicans to listen to him tell about his gall stone operation. Moaned he: "Imagine starting out, 'Now, when I had my operation,' and having only 15 or 20 around to hear!" Golfing and fishing at Miami...