Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beaten, ageless and nondescript as a chunk of driftwood. Like the driftwood, he seemed doomed to float from shore to shore on the China Sea forever. He had no passport. His name, he said, is Michael Patrick O'Brien, but he readily admitted: "Back home in Washington and Oregon, they call me Steven Stanley Regan." He never knew his father; his mother was Hungarian; the only identification he possesses is a Red Cross certificate which calls him "a stateless Irishman...
...Federal District Court, French was formally served a warrant issued by his Oregon draft board, charing him with being a draft dodger...
...they have in every election since 1936, the Democrats tried last week to make a campaign issue of the U.S. press. Candidate Adlai Stevenson started things off at a Portland, Ore. luncheon of editors arranged by the pro-Stevenson Oregon Journal. Citing the 90% of the U.S. press which he says is opposing him, Stevenson said that in "the two-party" U.S. there is danger of getting a "one-party press." But he was not worried because "my party has done all right in recent elections . . . People are smarter than many politicians think, and sometimes I suspect that even editors...
...Indiana, 12-men, $9,100; Kansas, 13 men, $10,550; Massachusetts, 350 men, $169,801; Michigan, 16 men, $9,150: Minnesota, 23 men, $17,750; Missouri, 16 men, $11,300; New Jersey, 23 men $14,250; New York. 143 men, $78,730; Ohio, 63 men, $48,550; Oregon, 9 men, $7,200; Pennsylvania, 45 men, $29,800; Rhode Island, 22 men, $11,850; Washington, 22 men, $14,400; Wisconsin, 15 men, $8,400. Scholarships totalling $7,700 were awarded to II men from foreign countries...
Robert B. Frazier, reporter, Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard. A graduate in jounalism of the University of Oregon, 1948. He plans to study sociology and psychology...