Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July 6) that this statue had been purchased from a Manhattan dealer for the city of Salem, Ore. The money was to come from the life savings that Carroll L. Moores, a Salem janitor, had left in trust for the purpose of erecting "a monument...in memory of early Oregon pioneers." The citizens of modern Salem, however, saw newspaper photographs of the sculpture and protested. The nude bronze figure was a far cry from the sunbonneted frontierswoman they had envisioned. Said a Salem housewife: "I would have a difficult time explaining to my young children why we would have...
Gloomy and forbidding vistas opened ahead of the shiny new Nash sedan as it followed the curves of U.S. Highway 101 up the Oregon coast. Dawn had just broken, the light was dim, and at Cape Foulweather, five miles north of Newport (pop. 3,250), the empty roadway sometimes seemed to be curving off into thin air beyond the cliffs...
...Most of Oregon's Willamette River was shaded to the water's edge by a vast and unbroken Douglas fir forest in 1845, but two optimistic New Englanders who had just decided to found a metropolis on its west bank paid little attention to this awesome sylvan roadblock. They had a more important problem-picking a name for their dream city. Neither wasted a moment considering any local Indian words. Massachusetts-born Asa Lovejoy insistently cried: "Boston!" Maine-born Francis Pettygrove stubbornly cried: "Portland!" Finally they tossed a big, old-fashioned copper one-cent piece. Petty-grove...
...explain that we do not live in Maine, while on the Atlantic Coast it is taken for granted that anyone from Portland means Maine's." On top of that, he pointed out, there are more than a dozen other Portlands in the U.S.* The committee suggested an Oregon Indian name first noted by Lewis & Clark: Multnomah...
...told me that Ike had made specific promises in his campaign speeches to them that he would keep "the program" intact if he were elected. Now they blame Secretary of Agriculture Benson and, of course, Tom Dewey and "Eastern money" for talking Ike into breaking his promises. In eastern Oregon, Washington, northern Idaho and Montana, Ike is similarly popular, while Secretary of Interior McKay and the "power trusts and bankers of the G.O.P." are the villains to public-power supporters...