Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reporting on his year's activities at the Oregon State Fair last week, 13-year-old David Shelby, of Albany (pop. 13,000), Ore. submitted his 4-H Club record book. The year, as David Shelby...
Fall Catalogue. In Corvallis, Ore., Professor A. G. B. Bouquet resigned from Oregon State College's horticulture department, was succeeded by Professor Spencer B. Apple...
...Oregon's mischievous Wayne Morse inquired innocently whether it wasn't a fact that the Southern states had shirked responsibility in helping to provide for their own highways. Douglas agreed that it might be so. Arkansas' McClellan was on his feet protesting such an outrageous libel. McKellar pounded his gavel so hard it flew out of his hands, fixed Douglas in a baleful stare, invoked Rule 19, which forbids any Senator to speak derogatorily of a state, and demanded unanimous consent to have Douglas' remarks expunged...
Extra, Extra. All over, newspaper circulations soared. In Dallas, the Times-Herald (circ. 140,534) doubled its street sales in one afternoon. Portland's Oregon Journal (circ. 190,844) put out a daily extra, increased its sales by 35,000 copies for the week. (The Journal's copy desk also invented a more convenient headline word to describe the North Korean Communists: KO-REDS.) Though newspapers quickly took on their old wartime look with Page One photos of General MacArthur, B-29s and tanks, and the first casualty lists, most of the U.S. press followed Harry Truman...
...talked things over with fellow members of a small group of Republican progressives in the Senate, and found that they agreed with her. She drafted what she called a "Declaration of Conscience," and got them to sign it with her-New Hampshire's Tobey, Vermont's Aiken, Oregon's Morse, New York's Ives, Minnesota's Thye, New Jersey's Hendrickson. Thus armed she took the floor to make her case...