Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talk about their differences. For hours, while almost no one analyzed the Smith-Molotov texts, the whole world felt a springlike breath of hope. The magic word "peace" appeared in headlines. People saw a melting of the frozen front of the cold war. Tom Dewey, electioneering in Oregon, hailed it as "the best news since V-J day if they [the Russians] mean...
There were a lot of Oregonians who felt just like the old man. They had never had so much attention from a candidate for state office, let alone from a presidential aspirant. But Harold Stassen desperately needed Oregon's twelve convention delegates to get his bandwagon, slowed down in Ohio, rolling again. And Tom Dewey wanted to prove his ability as a vote-getter...
...between curb and truck and zoomed on past as the disappointed crowd booed. Mayor Nichols ripped the Dewey button from his lapel and replaced it with two Stassen buttons. "This burns me up," he declaimed. "Dewey was pretty small." Gloated Stassen: "Many interesting things have happened on the old Oregon Trail." One interesting fact: the odds on the primary results had dropped from 2-1 in Stassen's favor to even money...
...Such "glib proposals" and "easy panaceas," he cried, were "nothing but the methods of Hitler and Stalin ... It is thought control borrowed from the Japanese." He rode the theme so hard that the Portland Oregonian was finally aroused to a tut-tutting editorial: "Let's not have an Oregon campaign based on who hates Communism most...
...smooth sailing. In Eugene a group of student hecklers from the University of Oregon plopped down in the front row, diligently leafed through copies of LIFE with a picture of Harold Stassen on the cover. In Portland, Dewey refused a drink of bourbon offered by a local politico, ducked out for his own bottle of Scotch. Commented a local columnist: "Out West here, podner, men have been shot for refusing to drink out of the common cookin' likker bottle and then showing up with their own pizen...