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...citation given by the Council on Books in Wartime. "Incredibly honest-a triumph of free speech," says the Dallas Morning Times. "Hersey has circumvented censorship by putting his observations into fiction form. One of the most inspiring books of the season," writes the Portland Oregonian. The Army Times calls A Bell for Adano "a tough book, slashing and cutting at a system personified by one of the Army's most publicized generals." And the Atlanta Constitution says: "It makes you proud to be an American," but "it may well be the basis of a Congressional investigation...
...historic coincidence, the Republican Senate leadership fell open the same week as the Democratic. Death came to Charles Linza McNary, 69, the slender, urbane Oregonian who adroitly steered his Party's Senate minority through the grueling first eleven years of the New Deal...
Successors. McNary's passing left two jobs to be filled: his Oregon seat, and most important, his minority leadership. In Oregon, -the Portland Oregonian's Palmer Hoyt was considered a strong choice. But Governor Earl Snell may pick an interim Senator so that he can run for the seat himself in November...
...days Palmer Hoyt tried to run the Domestic Branch of OWI the same way he used to run his newspaper. It had taken him twelve years to grow from copyreader to publisher of the Portland Oregonian; it took him six months to convince Washington once more that the often-lamented shortage of Westerners in the Federal administration is Washington's loss...
...Oregonian Hoyt accepted last June was actually a receivership: he took over OWI's Domestic Branch at the very moment Congressional fury had broad-axed the agency, cutting its budget by 75%. Hoyt realized that OWI's strength is derived not from the size of its payroll but from the credit it has with public opinion. Instead of telling the newspapers, he invited them to tell...