Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...useful later, collected intelligence reports on local problems, local people. The Wisconsin and Nebraska primaries almost made all this work useless. Tom Dewey looked like a gone goose. He was told that if he wanted the nomination, he would have to go after it-and hard. He did. In Oregon's rainy spring he made 92 speeches in 20 days, made obeisance to every traditional ritual of the successful campaigner. He won the primary. That was the turning point...
Dewey told newsmen little they wanted to know. He used the moment for its psychological effect on the enemy. He exuded victory. Delegations had been calling on him all day. He rolled off a list: Oklahoma, Maine, Alabama, Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Oregon, Wyoming, Rhode Island. It was probably the high point of the war of nerves. "I have no understandings, arrangements, bargains or deals with anyone in the United States for anything," he said...
...route to Baltimore, he was asked about his Oregon debate with Harold Stassen. Said Dewey: "You know, one man told me that debate was just like a truck driver running over a baby, then deliberately driving forward and backward over the body." Then he added: "Of course, that's a little exaggerated...
This week, above the muddy water, the sun shone warm and bright. In the mountains warm rain and melting snows poured fresh torrents into the valleys, sent new flood peaks surging down on the Columbia's lowlands. Nearly 48,000 were homeless in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The Red Cross estimated that it would be two months before those whose homes had not been destroyed could return. Over all the stricken Northwest, 26 had lost their lives...
...Oregon...