Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles Arthur Sprague, 51, of Oregon, a long-nosed small-town publisher (Salem Oregon Statesman...
...concrete measure of Republicans' success was that they swept New England solidly. Very nearly capturing the New York Governorship, they swept New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Kansas, South Dakota, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon. They nearly won in Indiana, won all high State offices but the Governorship in Nebraska, gained the Governorship and barely missed another Senator in Iowa. All those victories were against Democrats. In Minnesota and Wisconsin, ruled by Farmer-Labor and Progressives who were more or less allies of the New Deal, they won two more Governorships, one Senatorship...
Pensions. California, although it elected Pensioneer Sheridan Downey to the Senate, did not want $30 Every Thursday for its old folks at the cost of a serious monetary experiment, returned a 100,000 majority against it. Oregon rejected a "citizens' retirement annuity plan" which would have paid up to $100 a month, but instructed its Legislature to memorialize Congress on behalf of the Townsend Plan. Nebraskans refused to license slot machines to provide more pension revenue. Elsewhere the pension cause was successful. North Dakota approved pensions of $40 a month. Colorado rejected an amendment repealing its present...
Labor, its rights and wrongs, a lively campaign issue in most States, fared well with voters. A.F. of L. and C.I.O. combined to stave off drastic anti-picketing ordinances in California. Oregon. Washington. But Oregon approved a milder initiative proposal to outlaw picketing in jurisdictional disputes, restrict secondary boycotts, regulate union expenditures...
Conrad T. Budny '40, of Gilman, Wisconsin; William N. Chambers '39, of St. Louis; William N. Chandler '41, of Portland, Oregon; George W. Chessman '41, of Peoria, Illinois; Gardner Clark '39, of Cleveland, Ohio; Ray S. Cline '39, of Terre Haute, Indiana; John E. Crane '40, of Richmond, Indiana; Daniel R. Crusius '40, of Elmhurst, Ilinois; Hamilton Daughaday Jr. '40, of Winnetka, Illinois; Edward M. Davis Jr. '40, of Winter Park, Florida; Joseph T. Doyle '39, of Providence; Charles D. Duffy Jr. '39, of South Jacksonville, Florida; Richard D. Edwards '41, of Pittsburgh; Warick E. Elrod Jr. '39, of Atlanta...