Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German mass air attacks, as distinct from sporadic raids, showed a definite pattern. First they went after the naval bases and coastal air defenses-Portland, Plymouth, Dover, Southampton. Next they pressed inland looking for R. A. F. bases and aircraft factories. On Aug. 15, eleven bombers penetrated fighter and anti-aircraft defenses and reached Croydon, Britain's greatest airport, ten miles from London's heart. The British said all the raiders were destroyed, but so were hangars and shops at Croydon and many a neighboring house. On Aug. 16 they stepped up their pace to 2,500 planes...
...Russell a C. C. N. Y. professor.*Last week it again was rash. It prepared to appoint as president of C. C. N. Y., one of the nation's biggest colleges (25,810 students, day and evening), Dexter Merriam Keezer, president of small (550 students), progressive Reed College, Portland...
...economics from the Brookings Institution, taught three years at Cornell, Colorado, North Carolina, quit teaching to be Washington correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspapers and later an editor of the Baltimore Sun. He went to Washington as executive director of NRA's Consumers' Advisory Board, landed in Portland as Reed's president...
...Dying was the fear that indispensable moves f o ; U. S. defense were warmongering emotionalism: in Portland, Ore., Republican Presidential Candidate Frank Gannett condemned the present...
...Portland, Ore., the Rev. Henry Guy Goodsell (Methodist): "We can't be neutral. ... I think we should preserve the status quo . . . I'm not the simon-pure pacifist I used...