Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oregon's one-of-a-kind Democratic Senator Wayne Morse roadblocked the Administration's passport bill designed to offset the Supreme Court's ruling that, under existing legislation, the State Department may not deny passports to U.S. citizens on the grounds of beliefs or associations (TIME, June 30). Denouncing it as an "inexcusable attack on constitutional guarantees," Morse stalled the bill in the Foreign Relations Committee under the rule requiring unanimous consent for a committee to meet while the Senate is in session...
Drenched. The total mood seemed best reflected by Oregon's Republican secretary of state Mark Hatfield, a candidate for Governor in a onetime Republican stronghold that the Democrats have thoroughly taken over. Hatfield wrote a stinging letter to the President, afterward announced the theme of his complaint. "I would not continue in office as assistant or member of an administration a person whose imprudence creates doubt as to the impartiality of his responsibilities. I am not concerned about political expediency. What I am interested in is the question of ethics involved. I have urged the President to make...
...party duds, Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver helped raise a few ($3,000) dollars at a Democratic fund-raising party with some hokumy sleight of hand, included in his act a cautious display of rope twirling. Also in the spirit of things was leggy Maurine Neuberger, wife of Oregon's junior Senator Richard Neuberger, who for the party's fashion show slithered out on stage in a figure-hugging one-piece bathing suit, with companion checked beach coat...
...professorships and substantial increases in Faculty salaries have been announced; preliminary plans for the new Theatre have been accepted; an Oregon couple has donated $1.5 million for the Visual Arts Center...
Merom Brachman '58, of Lowell House and Fort Worth, Texas, and Richard W. Dixon '58, of Adams House and Woodburn, Oregon, were announced yesterday as recipients of Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellowships...