Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner was Mark Hatfield elected Governor of Oregon last month than the energetic young (36) Republican dashed off a pro forma request to Oregon's eccentric Democratic Senator Wayne Morse. Said Hatfield: Would Morse, as senior member of the state's congressional delegation, arrange a conference so that Governor and delegation could discuss federal-state problems? Replied Wayne Morse: No, nothing could come of such a meeting. Undaunted, Hatfield went ahead and held his own man-to-man conferences. Last week he worked around to the other half of the Morseberger senatorial team, Morse's onetime prot...
...Yardlings money ballplayer is a 5 ft. 10 in halfback from Oregon named John Damis, who either slants through the line or runs around it. In addition to running Damis is also a passing or kicking threat...
...last week's elections it was such moderate Republicans as New York's Nelson Rockefeller, Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott and Oregon's Mark Hatfield who scored most dramatically; it was such Old Guard Republicans as Ohio's John Bricker, Nevada's George Malone, Indiana's Harold Handley, California's Bill Knowland and West Virginia's Chapman Rever-omb who took the most sensational drubbings. Clearly the congressional Republican Party had a more middle-road look after the elections than before...
...biggest Republican winners-New York's Governor-elect Nelson Rockefeller, Pennsylvania's Senator-elect Hugh Scott, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, Oregon's Governor-elect Mark Hatfield-had one thing in common: highly attractive personalities that they effectively displayed to the voters. At the same time, the Democratic Party was far more successful in finding young, attractive candidates nationwide. In Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, for example, the six newly elected Democratic Congressmen averaged only 42 in age, as against 60 for their Republican opponents. Republican Hatfield best explained the meaning of personality to his party...
...Oregon: In campaign's last minute, U.S. Senator Wayne Morse stuck his new (since 1955) Democratic nose in the governorship race to gig Republican Mark Hatfield by dredging up an ancient traffic charge and making Hatfield the villain. Until then, the Democratic candidate, Robert D. Holmes, was the predicted winner of a close election. In what was rated as a vote of outrage against Busybody Morse, Republican Hatfield took the statehouse...