Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revenue loss involved in its 7% in come tax credit for industries that invest in new machinery. In eight days of slashing, sarcastic debate. Kerr beat off every significant attempt to alter the bill. In a hopeless snarl of party lines, such Democratic liberals as Illinois' Paul Douglas, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Tennessee's Albert Gore found themselves arrayed against President Kennedy. Alongside them were Byrd and such steely Republican conservatives as Arizona's Barry Goldwater and Delaware's John Williams...
...most of all, outside the Senate itself, they tend to forget or ignore the fact that Dirksen has become the most effective G.O.P. floor leader in a line of succession that includes Oregon's Charles McNary, Maine's Wallace White, Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, Ohio's Robert Taft and California's William Knowland...
...Oregon's Republican Governor Mark Hatfield, 40, left Salem at 6 a.m., drove to Portland for a quick speech to railway workers. Then he was off for a 351-mile drive to Baker (pop. 9,986), in sparsely settled, heavily Democratic eastern Oregon, for a typical round of small-town campaigning-an inspirational speech on civic virtue to the local high school assembly, a handshaking tour of an industrial plant (''Hatfield's the name, nice to see you again"), a visit with the editor of the local weekly, a talk to the Powder River Sportsmen...
...Democratic year - with an upset victory over Incumbent Democrat Robert D. Holmes. Since then he has carefully husbanded his popularity, avoided controversy, concentrated instead in souping up the state's economy. In the last two years, 100 new industries employing 10,000 workers have come into Oregon; in just two months this summer, $550 million worth of new commercial construction got under way. Hatfield is also a guiding force behind a $10 million private effort to bring research organizations into the state...
Inevitably, not everything has come up aces for Hatfield. The Democratic-controlled state legislature turned down as a "power grab" his proposal to reform Oregon's unwieldy state constitution by increasing the Governor's powers. And he has admittedly failed to breathe new life into a moribund Republican Party organization. "I haven't been able to please the old pros, and I've just about given up trying," he says. 'T do not control the party, nor do I have any desire...