Word: portland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portland, Ore., though well aware that nobody supposes he has barnstormed for his health through 45 States in the past twelvemonth, he made formal announcement that he is a candidate for the GOPresidential nomination. > He disposed of another ritualistic prerequisite for election by being inducted, feather bonnet and all, as "Flying Eagle," into the Blackfeet Indian tribe at Great Falls, Mont...
...appointed Portland's Ralph Harlan Cake, Oregon Republican national committeeman, as his preconvention campaign manager...
...Willkie is nominated, Cake will at once become Republican national chairman. A grey-haired, lively, amiable man of 52, Ralph Cake has a deceptively easygoing manner. President of Portland's Equitable Savings & Loan Association, onetime president of the U.S. Savings & Loan League, he has shown himself to be a shrewd, hard-driving lawyer and businessman...
...first purpose was accomplished at luncheons, dinners and off-the-record conferences in Salt Lake City's Newhouse Hotel, Boise's Hotel Boise, Seattle's Masonic Temple, Tacoma's American Legion Hall and Portland's Multnomah Hotel. Newsmen, recalling the hostility-charged Willkie confabs in St. Louis and Washington last year, noted a great thaw all along the line. In Boise, the 300 tickets for the Willkie luncheon sold in 20 minutes; in Seattle, Willkie shook 2,000 hands in 40 minutes. Party workers flocked to see and hear the candidate who, only the week...
Willkie had perhaps split the Utah delegation; friendly Washington is still uncertain. In Portland, he announced his entrance into the Oregon primary. The most significant result might follow his luncheon with California's Governor Earl Warren, the most potent Western GOPolitico. If Wendell Willkie could snare Earl Warren's support, the whole West might fall into his hands...