Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When an economy-minded Congress lopped off a ponderous $83 million from the Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation, the resulting crash echoed throughout the West like the crash of a felled Sequoia. Four Republican, four Democratic governors of California, Colorado, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Washington rushed to Seattle's Olympic Hotel to take counsel. Arizona and Nevada sent representatives...
They thought they saw the villain-Eastern capital, which, they said, wanted to keep the West shorn of power, reduced to a mere producer of raw materials for the industrial East. Said Oregon's Republican Governor Earl Snell: "If the East looks on the West as an insignificant colony, it's certainly time ... to make known the united power of the West...
...there were some Republicans who saw no good in a needlessly punitive bill and no political gain in unnecessarily antagonizing labor. This group was not only composed of such G.O.P. mavericks as Oregon's Morse, Vermont's Aiken and New Hampshire's Tobey. It included such men as New York's Irving Ives, a labor relations expert and skilled parliamentary debater; Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith; and the co-leader of the Senate, Arthur Vandenberg. They took a second look at the bill now under consideration...
Still a passionate fisherman, he has worked out a schedule of visits which enables him to follow the trout season from California through Oregon and Canada. In winter, he fishes in Florida. His role in politics is that of an elder statesman. Said an associate: "Of course, he talks with politicians from time to time, but just because they are old friends...
...with nothing nagging him and the squaws going about their business and the young ones playing, making out that they warred on the As-siniboines." The novel ends with Boone's paradise lost and the first great migration of prairie schooners setting out from St. Louis for the Oregon Trail...