Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vacations from Yale Budd worked on a survey gang for the road, became assistant to the Great Northern's chief electrical engineer on graduation in 1930, and in 1940 (long after his father had left the road to head the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy) became a division head in Oregon...
Wrote Hearst Society Columnist Cobina Wright who was born on an Oregon ranch: "It seems to me that there is a great deal of unnecessary and adverse comment being made by columnists about...
...early" editions had already headlined a story by U.P.'s White House Correspondent Merriman Smith that President Truman had decided against any rebuke to MacArthur (headlined the New York Daily Mirror: WHITE HOUSE WON'T CENSURE MACARTHUR). A.P. had put out a similar story. The Portland Oregon Journal had to yank its editorial that "Truman couldn't fire MacArthur even if he wanted to . . ." Apparently, only NBC's Earl Godwin emerged as a prophet with honor. He had broadcast: "President Truman is not going to let MacArthur get away with...
...return of the Japanese Americans from relocation camps, Sprague sharply defended Japanese American rights. One night he marched into the middle of an ugly-tempered anti-Japanese mass meeting in Gresham to lecture the citizens. Said he: "It would be a shocking and terrible thing for you citizens of Oregon to destroy the rights of these people. Guard those rights. If you finish them, they're finished for you also...
Selected to come here next fall are: Denham Sutcliffe, professor of English at Kenyon College, Cambier, Ohio; Aaron J. Ihde, associate professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin; and Frank Ikle, instructor in Humanities and History at Reed College, Portland, Oregon...