Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dirksen, Ike's duty clearly lies at the head of the ticket on which Dirksen will be running for reelection. But the vast majority of Republican leaders seemed to agree with Vermont National Committeeman Edward Janeway, who said that "under no circumstances" should Eisenhower run again, and Oregon State Chairman Wendell Wyatt, who said: "We would not want to jeopardize his later years." Having already accepted in their own minds the probability that Ike will not be a candidate, the Republicans were able to turn their attentions to another question: Who will run? Last week the Wall Street Journal...
...climax came one day when the canoes were plowing through rain, fog and high, rolling waves near the mouth of the Columbia. For an instant the mist parted, and the men sighted the Pacific ("O! the joy," Clark noted). On the Oregon shore, they built a salt cairn and wintered. Clark cut his name on a pine tree and added (in case they didn't make it back): "By Land from the U. States in 1804 & 1805." They celebrated Christmas and New Year's among coastal tribes with flattened heads, who made life miserable by pilfering their supplies...
...success. At a cost of about $2,500, and with the loss of only one man (apparently from appendicitis, the first year out), it opened up the vast trans-Mississippi West to settlement and commerce, and established a firm basis for this nation's later claim to the Oregon country...
John R. Thomson '57, HRYC President, said that Senator Knowland of California and Senator Morse of Oregon have tentatively agreed to preside at the mock Congress...
...confident-and perhaps overconfident-frame of mind, the Stevenson men had already counted their convention delegates. They decided that they already had enough votes (about 600), including reasonably solid delegations from Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Indiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona. Rhode Island, New Jersey, North Carolina, West Virginia, Arkansas, Mississippi, Kansas, Oregon, Missouri and Michigan. Already thinking about vice-presidential possibilities, the Stevensonites had also concluded that they did not want Alabama's Senator John Sparkman, who, they felt, was dead weight on the 1952 ticket...