Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers seeking advancement. In Los Angeles two women were arrested for conspiracy to defraud the Government in CWA work and a grand jury was just warming up for a series of indictments. In Pennsylvania a CWA engineer was dismissed for having taken a commission on a CWA job. The Oregon department of the American Legion passed resolutions complaining that people not in need were getting CWA jobs, that CWA was full of favoritism and inefficiency. In Harvey, outskirt of Chicago, six employed politicians were booted off a CWA sewer job. In the District of Columbia, skilled workers in the Navy...
...famed Actress Katharine Hepburn, the cousin of Alanson Bigelow Houghton. An ardent worker for Causes, she once picketed the White House for suffrage. Following the well-tried formula of the past three years, Birth Controller Hepburn induced a Congressman, this time old (72) Representative Walter Marcus Pierce of Oregon, to introduce a bill exempting the medical profession from the Federal ban on the shipment of contraceptive information and material. Four times before in the last ten years had a House Committee heard arguments on similar legislation and four times before had done nothing. The fifth time promised only the same...
...Andrews in May: Francis Ouimet, captain; George T. Dunlap Jr., Harry Chandler Egan, Johnny Fischer, Johnny Goodman, W. Lawson Little Jr., Max Marston, Gus Moreland, Jack Westland. Notable was the dropping of McCarthy, Seaver, Johnston and Voigt. More notable was the selection of Chandler Egan, 50-year-old Oregon fruit grower who won his first national amateur championship 30 years ago, dropped out of national play for 20 years, came back strong in 1929. In last year's national amateur he defeated Johnny Goodman, open champion, in the first round of match play. Golf enthusiasts happily anticipated a colorful...
Politic and popular, Oregon's Charles Linza McNary prepared to call the first meeting of Republicans, both Progressives and regulars, since he succeeded to the minority leadership. Said he: "All Republicans look alike to me." At the last minute, this gathering was postponed. Idaho's ursine Borah, on the lookout for a saddle horse to replace crippled "Governor" and superannuated "Idaho," notified Oil Administrator Ickes that big petroleum producers were squeezing little ones, that while the oil code increased costs to producers $125,000,000 a year, $486,000,000 in price increases were being passed...
Having withdrawn quietly and in good order following its costly defeat in 1932, the Republican high command last week took steps to consolidate its new position preparatory to the opening of Congress Jan. 3. First digging-in occurred in the office of Oregon's Charles Linza McNary, the Senate's minority leader. Slim of body and quick of brain, Senator McNary is personally popular with all factions of the G. 0. P. To his rooms in the Senate Office Building went two rich, prominent and ambitious Republican has-beens, onetime Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills...