Word: oregonian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rumors have been circulated-from sources plainly self-interested and unfriendly-that The Oregonian has been sold. Some of the rumor mongers have identified the supposed purchaser variously. Most of them have said that Mr. Hearst is the purchaser. . . . The Oregonian has not been sold. . . . No sale is in negotiation or pending...
...last fortnight the venerable Portland Oregonian felt obliged to print the foregoing "plain statement of facts'' in a two-column box on its front page. It may have helped squelch a false rumor, but it could not make the Oregonian's 92.500 readers understand what had happened to their newspaper in the past month. Still dazed were they from that November morning when they saw. for the first time, a picture at the top of Page One. It illustrated not a world calamity but an ordinary sob-story...
...other Republican cartoonists whose work has helped the G. O. P. campaign are Quincy Scott of the Portland Oregonian and Vaughn Richard Shoemaker of the Chicago Daily News. With ideas better than execution Cartoonist Scott has specialized on the economic aspects of the race while Cartoonist Shoemaker keeps thumping the "pork-barrel." The latter, aged 30, taught cartooning at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts for eight years...
...lead-off letter of your Nov. 23 issue caused me deep chagrin when I learned that for four years an Oregonian miss has been rolling on the floor each week with MY gift of TIME...
...Joaquin Valley the long-powerful Fresno Republican was five years old. And in Sacramento the Union was 30, the Bee 24. Portland's respected Oregonian was older than any of the others; and the Telegram was in existence, too. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer had been there since 1863 and Hearst was not to get it until...