Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, the fatherly Bureau of Indian Affairs had been trying to coax Oregon's Celilo Indians into abandoning their evil-smelling fishing village, perched on the cliffs above the Columbia River, 95 miles east of Portland. If they would move out, the Government promised, new quarters would be provided across the road, with concrete decks where visiting fishermen could pitch their wigwams, honest-to-Manitou houses for the permanent residents, and inside plumbing...
...troubles of U.S. democracy, Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse had long since decided, is that U.S. citizens are sometimes a little lazy when it comes to working at it-especially if the work involves going to a political meeting and asking a challenging candidate a few sharp questions. Last week Morse set out to make the process really easy. Seated in a little studio in station KERG in Eugene, he invited listening farmers and townspeople to pick up the phone and ask him a question. The questions came with a rush; it kept three people busy just taking...
...week's end Whitman totted up the results of the crusade. They had sold over 3,000 tickets, almost wiped out their season deficit. The team had won its game with Eastern Oregon 48 to 20. And the Walla Walla alumni had promised to raise enough money to pay half scholarships ($175) for 20 athletes a year...
Fill the Bleachers. Whitman students disagreed. What the school needed, they decided, was more paying spectators to get more money for more athletic scholarships. The first step to that end was plain: fill the bleachers for the season's last game, with Eastern Oregon College of Education...
...Penn (postal); Pitt (postal); Oregon State (postal...