Word: oregon
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...visiting U.S. Senator, Russell B. Long of Louisiana. It was Senator Long's idea on the spur of the moment to fulfill a lifetime's ambition by swimming from Europe to Asia, and the McGhees picked it up with enthusiasm. Another Senator, Wayne Morse of Oregon, cheered the swimmers on from a motorboat. Led most of the way by the powerful Texas-born ambassador, Long took a spurt at the end and finished the half-mile first, in 27½ minutes. McGhee was a close second; Mrs. McGhee third...
...began with Adlai Stevenson's written reply to a question posed by the Oregon Journal: "Can Stevenson really clean up the mess in Washington?" The reply, published in the Journal, read: "As to whether I can clean up the mess in Washington, I would bespeak the careful scrutiny of what I inherited in Illinois and what has been accomplished in three years . . . I can only give my best, with ruthless objectivity...
Visiting professors who "interned" with TIME last year were Richard Baker of Columbia University, Thomas Newell of Stanford University, and Gordon Sabine, dean of the University of Oregon's School of Journalism. Through them, hundreds of college students have had a close look at TIME'S techniques and methods. For students not majoring in journalism, Dean Sabine also conducts classes on "The Public and the Press," in which the emphasis is on evaluating sources of news...
...five World War II years, Kiewit bossed or shared more than $300 million of Government contracts, ranging from Army camps in Washington, Colorado and Oregon to landing fields along the Alcan Highway. At war's end, when crapehang-ers were again crying Depression, Kiewit made his second decision to expand, since then has bought an armored division of modern equipment. His 1,000 trucks, 350 tractors and 80 power shovels, etc., have a replacement value of $20 million. He kept a big staff of specialists and workers, including more than 100 engineers under Vice President and Right-Hand...
With respect to the doubtful group, the states of New Jersey, Oregon and Pennsylvania all went to the Republicans in 1948, and the chances are they will again in 1952. Leaving out the undecided convention votes in Pennsylvania and moving this group of states to the hard-core group, where they may more properly belong, this makes the doubtful states read as follows: Taft 185 and Eisenhower 196. This shifting around also strikes a much more even balance between Taft and Eisenhower in the hard-core Republican states: Eisenhower 130 and Taft 92. The above analysis, if nothing else, shows...