Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Portland, an Oregon Journal photographer excitedly ran eight blocks to the Civic Auditorium where Margaret Truman was about to start a concert. Panting, he momentously told her the news. She sweetly replied that she had known it. In Chicago, the Sun-Times spread across its centerfold two pages of pictures of Truman from cradle to Jefferson-Jackson banquet. Many a paper, -e.g., the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, had taken a chance and gone to press with stories based on the advance text (PRESIDENT DOES NOT INDICATE PLANS), and shifted to a new banner and the big news before their press...
...continued to press the case, and last week, after 12,959 pages of testimony, brought in its verdict. It found that Transamerica Corp., the Giannini-controlled bank holding company, dominates 41% of all banking offices, 39% of all bank deposits, and 50% of all bank loans in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Arizona. This dominance, said FRB, does indeed hold the threat of monopoly. It ordered Transamerica to sell its controlling stock in 47 banks*with 667 offices, and to start doing so within 90 days or be haled into court...
...untried, but supposedly potent, Midwest contender. If Kefauver vanquishes Kerr and picks up odds & ends of strength along the way, his next obstacle will be Georgia's Richard Russell (in the two Florida votes May 6 and May 27) and Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson (in Oregon May 16). Kefauver's prospects are (in this respect only) somewhat like that of a professional burglar: a good average isn't enough-he has to win every time...
Bend of the River (Universal) sheds enough Technicolored blood to drench half a dozen ordinary westerns. It starts with a near-miss when Jimmy Stewart, guide of an Oregon-bound wagon train, saves Arthur Kennedy from being lynched as a horse thief. Soon they are both busy sticking knives into a raiding party of Shoshone Indians...
When the settlers reach Oregon, the blood really starts to flow: a pitched battle in Portland, a running fight up the Columbia River, an ambuscade on the slopes of Mt. Hood. Having eliminated most of the badmen on the Pacific Coast, Stewart and Kennedy start taking potshots at each other, and stage their final death grapple in a mountain torrent. At intervals in the gunfire, Stewart and Gambler Rock Hudson make sheep's eyes at Julia Adams and Lori Nelson. Funnyman Stepin' Fetchit, after a movie absence of 15 years, is back in Bend of the River...