Word: oregon
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...earthquake rocked the Washington coast and parts of British Columbia and Oregon. Goldfish were slopped out of outdoor ponds in Seattle. Sulphuric acid spilled over the edge of a smelter vat in Tacoma, made workmen run like rabbits,, The quake lasted for 45 minutes, but was only noticeable for two. Nobody was killed. Seismologists explained that the quake had come from the ocean floor, 200 miles west. But almanac readers knew better. That was the day a B-29 dropped a practice explosive bomb at Bikini Atoll. The earth had twitched slightly, like a horse plagued...
Some were shocked; others were troubled. Senator Robert Taft, who has long demanded revision of labor laws, turned thumbs down on the President's "expedients." Republican Senator Eugene Millikin thought it unconstitutional. Oregon's Wayne Morse, incensed because the bill had been short-circuited around the Education and Labor Committee, resigned from the committee. Action was postponed. But the Senate, jolted by Harry Truman's explosive move, really got down to business on the Case bill...
Chicago Round Table (Sun. 1:30p.m., NBC). Georgia's Governor Ellis Arnall, Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse and University of Chicago's Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins will discuss "The Future of Liberal Government...
Friends of labor, like Senators Scott Lucas and Joseph Ball, had asked for a new deal in fundamentals. Said Oregon's liberal Senator Wayne Morse, onetime member of the War Labor Board: "We . . . should write into law a distinct policy regarding labor and strikes. The time has come for us to take a stand to settle this question once and for all." The Senate might even be in a mood to restore the Case bill's teeth...
Wrote he: "I hope LaFollette is successful. ... In the long run he will be closer to me than Morse [Oregon's vocally liberal Senator Wayne Morse]." Then he indicated that there was more to his sudden affection for LaFollette, and to Coleman's frenzied opposition to him, than met the politically naked eye. "Coleman appears to be tied up with Stassen," wrote presidential-hopeful Taft. "I don't think LaFollette will ever get into that campaign because he disapproves of Stassen's foreign policy...