Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Editor Edward Frederick Kramer, 77, broke his arm in a fall on the ice last week, he feared he would miss publishing his weekly Oregon (Wis.) Observer (circ. 775) for the first time since he bought the paper in 1910. But in neighboring Madison, Publisher Don Anderson of the daily Wisconsin State Journal (circ. 75,653), read about the mishap to the Observer's one-man (and wife) staff. He rounded up three of his reporters, an advertising man and linotypist, drove ten miles to Oregon and put together an eight-page issue. Will Sumner Jr., editor...
...story centers on Stewart's efforts to get a band of settlers established northwest of Portland, Oregon during the good old days. The real trouble comes when a gold-rush so corrupts Portland's Boss that he fails to send the settlers their winter supplies. Stewart and a band of Portland men steal the supplies and set out over a mountain range toward the settlement...
Thirty-two states have no Presidential primaries at all. Only three states bind their convention delegates to a certain candidate, and in only one of these--Oregon--must the delegates vote for the man who wins the preferential primary. As a result, the party bosses make the real choice. Rather than nominating the people's choices, they usually offer only a choice between mediocrities...
...states that have genuine primary contests, watching for a bona fide expression of popular sentiment. This gives states like New Hampshire a wholly disproportionate influence on the presidential choice. Wendell Willkie, for example, was out of the running for the Republican nomination after the Wisconsin primary in 1944. Oregon voters applied the same deathblow to Harold Stassen in 1948. These men might have been the real choice of the nation's Republicans, but Wisconsin and Oregon dissented, and the rest of the nation was electorally speechless. It may be that the country folk of New Hampshire will do likewise...
...some or all of their delegates in primaries. In only two (Minnesota, Ohio) does the ballot clearly show which presidential candidate each prospective delegate favors. In others, the voter either sees no indication on the ballot or is confronted with some more or less vague bit of prose. In Oregon, where the candidate for delegate may have a twelve-word slogan after his name on the ballot, one 1948 aspirant offered the voter this guidance: "You may have full confidence I will do my duty as delegate...