Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five: Vermont's Aiken, North Dakota's Langer, Oregon's Morse, Maine's Mrs. Smith and New Jersey's Alexander Smith. Five others abstained from voting; ten were absent...
...Women's Championship came down to a close race between Oregon's blonde Willa Worthington McGuire, 22, and Florida's Shirley MacCalla, 19. Both girls averaged 44 feet in each of two jumps; Willa won on form. She dropped to fifth place in the slalom, but won enough points in the tricks event (turnarounds, etc.) to ski off with the title...
Comments on FDR from his contemporaries on the paper are quite informative. Robert W. Ruhl '03, now a country editor in Oregon, reports, "I saw little of him and that little I did not like much. Before I graduated, I talked with the other editors who had executive positions and they said Franklin had a lot on the ball and the nerve of a brass baboon. And I must admit, although I never lost my original skepticism entirely, I was pleased (on a meeting later in life) by the President's cordiality and informality. The man could, if he wished...
...Prohibition got just as cold a shoulder. Arizona defeated a local option proposal; Oregon declined to ban the sale of "promotively advertised" liquor; South Dakota ruled it was all right to serve food and liquor in the same establishment; and Arkansas walloped a measure setting up statewide Prohibition, and making possession of more than a quart of liquor a crime...
...Market. In Portland, reported the Oregon Journal, a local dress shop put a placard in its window: "Maternity Fashions for the Modern Miss...