Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover do? General agreement was that at next year's convention he will control at least 200 of the 1,000 delegates. Of course the Republicans agreed that 1940 would see the New Deal's end. But general agreement, not only in Washington D. C., but in Oregon, Illinois, Minnesota, Kansas, etc., was that, with stage set, audience waiting, superspectacle prepared-with a fine cast of characters, a wonderful story, a happy ending-the star performer was poison at the box office...
...Oregon, with first or second generation Finns, it looked as if Russia's invasion might influence labor politics. Voting was on in the potent International Woodworkers of America, with a battle revolving around President Harold Pritchett, able left-winger, ally of Harry Bridges, and like Bridges threatened with deportation. Stridently anti-Communist is the opposition in Portland, Ore. Because I.W.A.'s members are scattered in remote logging camps, balloting takes a month. There were only three days of voting left when the Russian invasion began, but out of the northwest camps to Portland's anti-Pritchett headquarters...
...untied, unscored-on in nine games, while it rolled up a total of 205 points. Close on its cleated heels were Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College (Southwest Conference champion) and Cornell (pride of the Ivy League), both undefeated and untied, but scored-on. Powerful Southern California, undefeated but tied by Oregon, has yet to play the University of California at Los Angeles before it can clinch the Pacific Coast Conference championship, and a date at the Rose Bowl. Other football tops...
...these debates the Oregon system, a new idea that has not been tried before, was used, and, "proved itself to be very satisfactory," House debating authorities said last night. The main characteristic of the system is that cross examination is used instead of the usual speech making...
...Portland, Ore., Howard Jones's unbeaten Southern California powerhouse, strongest he has turned out in years, rumbled over hitherto unbeaten Oregon State, 19-to-7. Thereby practically clinching the Pacific Coast Conference championship, Southern California began to ponder whom it would invite to the Rose Bowl...