Word: oregon
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Twice Wisconsin's Senator William Proxmire had got a big play with his speeches attacking Johnson for highhandedness in making Democratic policy decisions, and the attacks had brought Proxmire more mail than anything else he had ever done. Oregon's Wayne Morse, traveling in Wisconsin, made the papers with a complaint that Johnson was a "Charlie McCarthy in a political ventriloquist act." Michigan's unemployment-harassed Pat McNamara, whose Senate achievements have hardly been worth a stick of type, squawked at Johnson for blocking liberal Democratic attempts to broaden unemployment compensation. Pennsylvania's Joe Clark dashed...
Kennedy is determined to campaign as the man "going to the country for a decision," thus be able to march on the Los Angeles convention as the people's choice. To do it, he is willing to run in the primaries that would do him the most good: Oregon, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. Due soon in Wisconsin to give the first big test to Kennedy findings and theories: Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey...
...disillusionment with Castro among his old supporters of the middle and upper classes is becoming obvious. Last week, when his picture appeared in a newsreel in Havana's well-to-do Miramar suburb, not a person applauded. In Washington, Castro's staunchest congressional friend, Oregon's Charles O. Porter, said: "I do not think Castro is a dictator yet, but I do see an ominous trend...
...Labor-reform bills are pending in twelve other states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Washington. In addition, New York passed a bill this year; Indiana's legislature adjourned without acting on one; and Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus vetoed a mild reform bill...
Your photograph of Senator Kennedy surrounded by Oregon's "Cavemen" [March 16] brought back memories of a similar photograph of the Cavemen which appeared during the 1948 presidential campaign. The honored guest at that time was Thomas E. Dewey. PFC WILLIAM R. BUNGE