Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time Uncle Charlie gets his copy he is more than ready for it. He reads four daily newspapers: The Portland Press-Herald, Boston Herald, Boston Globe, and the Portsmouth (N.H.) Herald. He also reads other magazines. Having been around long enough to recall the news of Lincoln's assassination and to see Americans march off to four wars, Uncle Charlie has a longer view of the news than most people. He admits, for instance, that Russia is a threat to the U.S., but he wants to wait awhile before making any prognostications about it. "You can't hurry...
...born in Portland, Me., in November 1900, grew up yearning for footlights. She took public-speaking at Ohio Wesleyan University, and then headed for Greenwich Village-and failure...
Once in office Fibber Elliott kept his eye on Mrs. Lee and wondered what to do next. True to her campaign promises, the new mayor cleaned out Portland's basketball and hockey-betting hangouts, had her cops round up prostitutes, close Chinese gambling dives. She even sent her police out to pick up all the slot machines, including those in such private hangouts as the Portland Press Club, which made $50,000 profit on them last year...
...went into action. By the time he began to move, rumors were going the rounds that he had actually been elected by Multnomah County gambling interests. He denied it, and to prove that he wasn't fibbing, began raiding gambling dens right & left in his county bailiwick on Portland's fringes...
Between Mrs. Lee and Fibber Elliott, Portland & environs last week were as pure as the snow which had covered them in the two-week cold wave...