Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Have you any untapped sources, any new facts?" snapped Oregon's McNary. Mr. Mitchell had none. So New York's Copeland, the Committee's chairman, ended the first day's session by suggesting Mr. Mitchell come back tomorrow, and Florida's Fletcher added: "Bring some facts with you. Let's have some facts...
...first paragraph of your article on the A. A. U. P. and the University of Oregon (TIME, June 10, p. 46) gives a wholly unjust impression of a very able administrator when it says that Dr. W. J. Kerr was found "totally incapable of educational leadership." The Committee on Academic Freedom makes no such charge in its report in the Bulletin, and publishes no specific instance of unfairness or incapacity. On the contrary its report credits Dr. Kerr with substantial results as the educational leader for over 25 years of Oregon State College-bitter rival...
Last week three professors employed respectively by California, Washington and Stanford Universities informed the people of Oregon that their Chancellor of Higher Education, William Jasper Kerr, was totally incapable of educational leadership, that his election was a "stupendous blunder" in the first place, that their State University would never have a "healthy and normal life" until they got rid of him. This blast, a monstrous piece of impertinence on its face, was delivered by the three professors as representatives of that extraordinary organization, the American Association of University Professors...
...Snow in his beard, year after year he sleighed through the northern woods buying timber, selling part of it to others, forming holding companies, but always retaining the biggest individual share, what was in practice the controlling minority. When the north woods were stripped, he moved into Idaho, into Oregon and Washington...
...Hearst, and only became specific in recommending that pastors study the 90-year-old Rochdale consumers' co-operative movement. Typical also was the amiable alacrity with which, when they came to the question of Japan, the Methodists followed the lead of their presiding officer, Bishop Titus Lowe of Oregon. The report expressed friendship toward Japan. Chided Bishop Lowe: ''When you condemn American imperialism in the Far East and in the next breath compliment Japan after her recent record in Shanghai and Manchukuo, I fear your social service brains are not working. One of the rankest bits...