Word: ores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mayors' junket to France as guests of that country. On a four-day frolic about Normandy they received careful instructions in French manners and etiquette preparatory to their Paris reception. Always in the press spotlight was big, breezy, beetle-browed George Baker, Mayor of Portland, Ore. and chairman of the delegation of 25 executives. At a banquet at Dinard, Mayor Baker grandly announced that he would adopt a five-year-old French orphan who played the bass drum in a church band which entertained the visitors. When he found he could not take the boy home with him, Mayor...
...will be no coal to keep the millions warm here. . . . All of this that we are building will mean nothing except something for men to remember for a thousand years-the great steel city. ... Its climax will be the climax of the Steel Age. . . . There will be no more ore, no more steel...
...page news in their respective homes. Havre's Mayor Leon Meyer greeted them with a long flowery speech. Baltimore's Ex-Mayor Broening* proposed a mock marriage to symbolize the union of "Uncle Sam and Miss France." The groom was beetle-browed George L. Baker of Portland, Ore. The bride was Mrs. Claire Skeel Baker who said: "We were originally married at Medford, Ore. in 1911 but we're glad to have it ratified in France."† After Mayor Meyer had performed the service in the Hotel de Ville, the bridal bouquet was placed on the tomb...
...Pasco, Wash. (pop. 3,500). He said he was going to "team-up" with the youngest mayor, R. B. Marvin of Syracuse, N. Y., who is 33. Bigger and louder than even St. Louis' Victor J. ("Oh, Boy") Miller was Mayor George L. Baker of Portland, Ore. Large, breezy, beetle-browed Mayor Baker lost no time in making himself the personage of the party. He wore a 10-gallon hat, was elected chairman of the delegation, gave out the big interview during the party's two-day stay in Manhattan. Excerpts: "It may seem like taking...
...family, although the small clothing store the father operated was prosperous. The Michelsons moved to Calaveras, Calif., birthplace in 1870 of Miriam Michelson, dramatic critic and author (Petticoat King, Duchess of Suds). Three years later the "big bonanza" broke at Virginia City. Miners took $21,000,000 of silver ore from the Comstock Lode in one year. The Mackays, Fairs, O'Briens and Floods became multimillionaires...