Word: portland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treatment accorded Henry Wallace by the Democrats [TIME, July 31]. Senator Truman may become Presidential material but the electorate, remembering the disaster that followed the election of another senator similarly selected, may refuse to vote for a Hannegan-Flynn-Kelly man for the peace period. MABEL WITHYCOMBE Portland...
State of the Nation is a report of a miracle, and Dos Passos' best book. Its 333 pages and 14 chapters cover the U.S. from Portland, Me. to Portland, Ore. It is the distillation of innumerable interviews in shipyards, union offices, hotel rooms, bars, restaurants, sharecroppers' cabins, trailer camps, busses, trains, automobiles, machine shops...
...Portland shipyard "the air smelt of cold seawater, freshly sawed oak, steamed planking. The art of wooden shipbuilding had been forgotten at the start of the war. There was no one to teach the farmers, fishermen, service-station attendants, schoolteachers, office workers, how to shape oak for minelayers...
...year's graduates were included in the elections announced on Tuesday. They are John J. Delaney, Jr., of Arlington, Robert H. Drucker, of Wilmette, Ill., Daniel B. Feer, of Brookline, David B. Green, of Brookline, Paul Mandelstam, of Allston, John J. Shea, of Jamaica Plain, and Philip Troen, of Portland, Maine...
Caught Napping. In Portland, Ore., police picked up a sound-asleep motorist in the middle of a downtown street, let him go when he explained that he "was just waiting for the light to turn...