Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus it was not surprising that when the time came for the key vote on Ike's USIA, only 14 holdout Republicans* and one lone Democrat (Oregon's Richard Neuberger) stood up against this symbolic-and genuinely harmful-slashing of the information program...
Widespread among political pundits is a belief that election results in the upper left-hand corner of the U.S.-Washington, Oregon, Idaho-are strongly influenced by the public-v.-private-power issue, with a majority of voters favoring public power...
November's returns seemed to fit the theory: though all three states were engulfed by the Eisenhower landslide, three Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate (Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie. Oregon's Douglas McKay and Idaho's Herman Welker) lost out to pro-public-power Democrats...
...Only Ohio and West Virginia have replaced Democratic governors with Republicans. Democrats have ousted Republicans from the statehouses of Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington...
...utterly indefensible act," cried Virginia's conservative Democrat Harry F. Byrd, whose Finance Committee quickly began hearings on his bill to limit all federal fast-amortization plans to defense, AEC and research projects. "A shocking political theft," added Oregon's liberal Democrat Wayne Morse, whose bill calling for a public power dam at Hells Canyon was defeated in Congress last July 51 to 41. It was promptly reported out of the Senate Interior Committee by Montana's Democratic Chairman James E. Murray as "our answer to the Administration's action...