Word: ores
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...board, the special Senate committee headed by Arkansas Democrat John McClellan continued hammering together its case against U.S. labor racketeering. As in the first week of its Washington hearings (TIME, March 11), the McClellan committee centered its attention on the activities of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in Portland, Ore., and again the star witness was Portland Racketeer James B. Elkins. Last week Elkins-and some corroborating witnesses-told how Teamsters' representatives, stymied in their original efforts to open the city to vice, simply took over the municipal government...
WASHINGTON, March 14--Poker-faced William Langley, district attorney of Portland, Ore., took the Fifth Amendment before the Senate committee investigating rackets today and refused to testify about gambling and prostitution in his bailiwick...
...buyers she entertained for a General Electric wholesaler responded by ordering "carloads" of appliances (TIME, March 4). In Washington, Seattle Madam Ann Thompson told senators (see below) that even with support from the Teamsters' Union (membership: 1,400,000), a bawdyhouse chain would not pay in Portland, Ore...
WASHINGTON, March 8--Conflicting testimony by Mayor Terry Schrunk of Portland, Ore., and six other witnesses about an alleged $500 bribe was referred to the Justice Department today for "possible perjury prosecution...
Both Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex.) and Sen. Neuberger (D-Ore.), acting leader at the time McCarthy made his protest, asserted McCarthy had been missing during most of the two weeks the Middle East resolution has been under discussion...