Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cobina Wright was the only one of his five wives to part by divorce from Owen Johnson (Stover at Yale), Born Esther Cobb on an Oregon ranch 90 mi. from a railroad, she was taken abroad by an aunt; at 16 she made her operatic debut in Germany and married Novelist Johnson. After War and divorce she entered Manhattan society by way of marriage to a wealthy broker named William May Wright. In 1924 she began a series of concerts chiefly distinguished by her Poiret gowns. Meantime she was becoming famed for large, jolly parties to which socialites and celebrities...
...citizens had put their names to petitions urging Congress to enact the Plan into law (TIME, Oct. 15). Last week Dr. Townsend claimed 25,000,000 such signatures. The 644 Townsend Clubs of last October had become 25,000. At last week's Washington rally Oregon's Representative William A. Ekwall spoke the mind of many & many a Congressman when he declared: "About 120,000 people in my district have signed a Townsend petition. When I first heard of this I laughed at it. Then I got the smile off my face. It's like a punching...
...Marquette. Particularly delicate was the problem in the case of Rhode Island and Virginia. Eventually Nathanael Greene and George Washington were moved out of Statuary Hall; Roger Williams and Robert E. Lee remained behind. California has not made up its mind which son to keep there. Still unrepresented are Oregon, Utah, Nevada, Montana, Washington, North and South Dakota, New Mexico, Louisiana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska...
...Cotton" Warburton of Southern California ran wild against Oregon, ended the Trojans' losing streak...
Since that winter improved methods of making heavy water have been devised at the Bureau of Standards, at University of California, by Dr. Urey himself. It is being made at Penn State, University of Michigan, University of Oregon, scores of other institutions in the U. S. and abroad. Dr. Urey's first cost of $150 per gram has dropped to $15 (about $75,000 per gallon). Princeton makes pure D20, estimates the cost at only $5 per gram. Ninety-five percent pure heavy water is available commercially at $20 per gram...