Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stem the tide; it has instituted roadblocks, train searches, and patient patrols in ranch country through the four border states. The wetbacks remain undiscouraged. A good many, smartened up by experience, now try to go as far north as Chicago, Detroit, Toledo, or the apple orchards of Washington and Oregon. Once beyond the patrol's real sphere of activity, a lucky Mexican can live and work for months or years without detection...
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...just read your unfair remarks about Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse in the March 23 issue. Morse is the best man the Western states have in the Senate. His tactics are a little extreme, but effective; and he is a good check on steamroller legislators. He may "chatter" like "a jay," but what he says sounds more like the Wise...
Cold Farewell. In Albany, Ore., the Greater Oregon ran an unsigned classified ad: "If the man who went rushing out the front door of my house the other night without any clothes on will call at my office, he can have his clothes and no questions asked...
...Tribune gave its readers only a small test sample of the changes Farrar prescribed, but the Call-Bulletin put on its new dress all at once, just as the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Portland Oregon Journal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Houston Post and scores of others had done after Typographer Farrar redesigned them. Farrar, whose clients often call him "the Deacon" because of his evangelical zeal for tidy typography (i.e., his own), bases all his prizewinning designs on a simple theory: "There are more eyes among readers than intellects...