Word: portland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portland, Ore.'s breezy Mayor Robert Earl Riley smoothed his pin-striped suit, tossed away a cigar butt, kissed his wife and daughter goodby, lit a new cigar and was off for England. He lands this week, will tour the countryside for eight weeks under the auspices of the Office of War Information, make speeches, answer questions, give Britons a chance to know-and, OWI hopes, to love-a typical U.S. mayor...
...already had some experience in Anglo-American relations. Once Portland entertained Lord and Lady Halifax; Mayor Riley sent an official car to take Lady Halifax to a luncheon. The official car turned out to be an old Chevrolet, driven by a shirt-sleeved policeman slightly moist with heat and embarrassment. Relieved to find the Mayor's wife in Lady Halifax' party, the policeman struck up a lengthy conversation...
Many a U.S. city, its population and pocketbook swollen by war work, has worried itself sick over an inevitable postwar collapse. Last week the city fathers of Portland, Ore. did something about...
Hired, for a fancy $100,000 fee, was New York's famed Park Commissioner Robert Moses, who will take a staff to Portland, make a 60-day survey, turn in recommendations for postwar public works. Best estimate is that war's end will throw 90,000 Portlanders out of work...
...Minster advertised in the Courier-Times: "FOR SALE-George, our pig. . . . Don't know what he weighs, but I can only lift one end of him at a time. . . . He sits down to meals. By mistake he has been fed laying mash and commercial fertilizer and once Portland cement. All seem to agree with...