Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always been right in the past. At one point, he said: "I don't believe the military has ever solved an international problem, nor will. It just expands, perpetuates and breeds hate and suspicion." When a Senator asked a puzzler, Wedemeyer would admit to puzzlement. "Senator," he told Oregon's Wayne Morse in one exchange, "that is a good question-you are asking damned good ones...
...growing list of Wherryisms. Samples: addressing the chair as "Mr. Paragraph," offering a comment as "my unanimous opinion," referring to Indo-China as "Indigo China" and the old War Department Civil Functions Bill as the Civil War Functions Bill, calling Spessard Holland of Florida "the Senator from Holland" and Oregon's Wayne Morse "the distinguished Senator from junior...
...brick Gamma Phi Beta sorority house on Hilyard Street is one of the handsomest at the University of Oregon. Strategically surrounded by fraternities, its green lawn slopes away to a mill race that meanders through the campus. One morning last month, sorority row was alive with the news that the Gamma Phi lawn had been desecrated by a seven-foot fiery cross. Sorority members vowed they didn't know who had brought the Ku Klux symbol, but they knew why. One of their sisters, Sophomore Debbie Burgess of Astoria, had been dating a Negro, DeNorval Unthank of Portland...
With that, the Oregon Daily Emerald took up the cry. In a pair of scathing editorials, the student editor attacked race prejudice and alumnae control of sororities: "An Oregon sorority has just paid homage to one of the strongest satans of our society. It has given way to fear of an unwritten social code and executed an injustice ugly on a college campus...
Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge deplored the effect on the "whole normal development of information." Oregon's maverick Wayne Morse supported Russell's ruling stoutly, and New Jersey's Republican Alexander Smith complimented the chairman on conducting the hearings "on the highest possible plane of fairness." From the White House, Harry Truman issued a statement: "The President made the decision [to fire MacArthur]. Conversations that led up to it are his business...