Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unsavory list of similar offenses, Idaho, Oregon, Oregon State and Stanford were hit with fines...
...control Portland's law-enforcement agencies, 2) organize all the city's rackets, from pinball machines to prostitution. The Page One story put S. I. Newhouse's staid Oregonian into a running fight not only with local officials but also with its opposition daily, the Oregon Journal (circ...
Adlai over Estes. Neither Adlai Stevenson nor Estes Kefauver had entered his name on the Democratic ballot in Oregon's presidential primary-but both campaigned for a write-in vote that would give the winner the 16-vote convention delegation. Kefauver returned to Oregon on the day before the primary for a whirlwind handshaking tour down the Willamette Valley. He was too late with too little: Stevenson had already covered more ground, drawn bigger crowds, and won more votes. For a write-in, Oregon's response was remarkable, with about 130,000 Democrats naming a candidate. Result: Stevenson...
...Oregon was by all odds Stevenson's most impressive showing so far. It helped him recover some of the prestige he had lost through primary defeats in New Hampshire and Minnesota, gave his candidacy a psychological lift that should help him in the vital primaries in Florida (see below) and California...
...trouble to write in Richard Nixon's name for Vice President, although there was no campaign for Nixon. Eisenhower's name was the only one on the presidential ballot for either party. But even with allowances made for that advantage, the primary indicated strong support in Oregon for Ike and Dick...