Word: oregonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Says." Charles Samuel Jackson, a native Virginian, headed west when he was still in his teens, reached Pendleton, Ore. By 1882 he had acquired a half interest in the Pendleton East Oregonian, by 1886 had persuaded Maria Clopton, another Virginia native, to become his wife. Of Sam Jackson's many ventures, his marriage was the most successful...
...hydrangea hedges, the big round beds of pansies, a fountain tinkling outside the main entrance of the institution "out at the end of Center Street," where Oregon houses 3,000 of its mental patients, make its externals pleasing to the eye. But any Oregonian who knows enough to make comparisons is shocked by the interior of this mid-Victorian (1883) Bedlam. Its 3,000 patients are 1,000 more than facilities properly can care for. Two toilets, seatless and of vintage unknown, must serve 60 men; 62 women share one metal wash basin...
...audience: some 5,000,000 listeners to the Town Meeting of the Air. Big Palmer Hoyt, onetime city editor, now publisher, of the Portland Oregonian, was listened to with respect, for his paper has a reputation for fair dealing. Said "Ep" Hoyt...
Shame on TIME [April 13] for its ill-mannered treatment of Mrs. Cornelia Marvin Pierce, distinguished Oregonian, wife and secretary of Oregon's only Democratic Congressman, ex-Governor Walter M. Pierce...
...Patience, Richard and Johnny (whose Around the World in Eleven Years was a best-seller in 1936), turned up in Portland, Ore. last week as that city's first full-time radio newscaster. Now 59, tiny, egg-bald Abbe began a two-a-day stint for the Oregonian's twin stations KGW and KEX. Said he: "All my life editors told me to photograph or write but for God's sake stop talking. Now I can talk...