Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prior to a banquet, Mr. Robert M. Belts, a well-known Oregon engineer, came to me and asked me if 1 would re-introduce him to the Prince, for whom he had worked in Alaska, and of course I agreed. As we sat down, Caetani was on my right and on my left was the Mayor of Spokane. Addressing the Ambassador, I said: ''Your Excellency, permit me to introduce Mr. Blank, the Mayor of the city," to which of course Caetani made a gracious but reserved response. Mr. Blank, greatly embarrassed, whispered in my left...
...Polish father and a Bohemian mother, Stan Kostka followed Coach Clarence W. ("Doc") Spears when he left Minnesota to go to Oregon, played there two years, wanted to follow Spears to Wisconsin but a Big Ten ruling would have prevented his playing football there. As it is, when he steps out on the field against Wisconsin this Saturday it will be the end of his meteoric, first and only season with the Gophers. By another Big Ten ruling he will not be eligible to play in 1935. He will probably join some professional team, as did his hero, Minnesota...
...some Republicans, however, Senator Vandenberg appeared more of an opportunist than a liberal. For national party leadership this group suggested Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon who was not up for re-election this year, who took no part in the campaign. No standpatter, Senator McNary has placed himself adroitly half way between the Republican archconservatives and the Republican insurgents. Quick to seize last week's hint he proclaimed: "The Republican Party must have a program and it must be a forward-looking one. ... In my opinion it will keep the faith...
...sheep and 25,000 cattle"; 3) director of Pet Milk Co.; 4) president of Sego Milk Products Co.; 5) vice president & treasurer of Amalgamated Sugar, a big Mormon beet-sugar enterprise; 6) president of Stoddard Lumber Co. which cuts 30,000,000 ft. of timber annually, in eastern Oregon; 7) director of a chain of lumber yards; 8) director of a farm implement house. Said the White House release: "All of these concerns have successfully weathered the years of Depression...
More significant than local tussles were results in three state-wide campaigns. By only a slim margin Oregon rejected a proposition backed by the Grange to put the State into the power business. In Washington voters approved (2-to-1) the Bone Power Bill which authorizes municipalities to acquire power properties outside their corporate limits. Thus Seattle's plan of buying the $100,000,000 Puget Sound Power & Light Co. is now legally possible. In Minnesota the citizens endorsed public-ownership by re-electing Farmer-Laborite Governor Floyd Olson...