Word: oregon
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...elections, candidates were selected by members of Congress sitting in caucus. In 1824, Andrew Jackson and his followers rebelled against "King Caucus," and paved the way for the convention system. In 1905, the Wisconsin legislature passed a law for direct election of all delegates to national conventions. In 1910, Oregon adopted the first presidential preference primary. In 1913, President Wilson urged virtually the same plan that Senator Smathers now proposes...
...Child." Cobina got her first good look at the century on her sheep-raising family's "several enormous ranches as big as counties, in the state of Oregon." There, in the early 1900s, as a poor little rich girl named Elaine Cobb, she grew up in the silence of the eternal hills. When the silence got on her nerves, she would holler-and she hollered so vigorously that her family allowed her to go off to Europe with a maiden aunt to have her voice trained...
Europe survived the Oregon cyclone, though the young men were laid flat in windrows. "Artists," Author Wright recalls demurely, "have told me that I had a perfect figure." She also discovered that she had "the divine gift" of an artistic temperament, and found a more artistic name to go with it-Cobina. And then one night, when she took stage fright at the prospect of singing the Queen of the Night in a third-string production of The Magic Flute, 16-year-old Cobina had her revelation...
Johnny Ray, a 25-year-old Oregon lad with an inordinate love of salt water in small quantities, has just set something of a record in the music business. In eight fast weeks, his recording of Cry (with The Little White Cloud That Cried on the other side) has sold 1,000,000 copies. Singer Ray's gimmick: tears...
...sound is my Scottish ancestors turning over in their graves at the inference that Highland bagpipes are "milkcurdling." Our baby daughter Linda learned to pat the plump tartan bag on my bagpipes long before she went from mother's milk. CAPT. CHESTER A. MACNEILL JR. Champion Bagpiper of Oregon Portland...