Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WLBoard fellows of "cheap legal side stepping" in the Montgomery Ward case, and said "palace guarders that surround the President have their hearts set on taking over heavy industry in this country." Morse's Democratic opposition in the November finals will be Edgar W. Smith, a Portland insurance man and political unknown. Oregon in November will also choose a Senator to fill four years of the late Charles McNary's term. Guy Cordon, interim Senator since McNary's death, got through a tough GOPrimary last week, seems likely to give twice-beaten Democratic Willis Mahoney a third...
...days after Pearl Harbor, RID's Portland, Ore. listening post picked up a suspicious signal, communicated it to Washington. Within six minutes, seven Adcocks throughout the country, fixed it somewhere in the District of Columbia. Next day, when the illegal transmitter came on again, RID tracked it straight to the German Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue...
...explained in any communiqué: "In the first 15 minutes . . . the Gushing had been put out of action by gunfire and was dead in the water; the Laffey had been sunk, the Sterett and O'Bannon had been damaged; the Atlanta was burning, and the San Francisco and Portland had been badly holed...
...anyone else. Asked where the steel would come from, he said: "I don't think they're just going on stockpiling it." Asked about manpower, he said: "We will use existing personnel; if they leave us, we'll recruit others." Forthwith A.P. reported from Portland, Ore. that Kaiser recruiters were seeking 15,200 more workers in the Midwest, the Southwest, and even in Washington, D.C. Asked about Army & Navy permission, he said he had not consulted them-"Why should...
From 1929 to 1932, Captain Barker was aide to the Commandant of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth. Following this, he spent two years as Executive Officer of the heavy cruiser, "Portland." In 1934 he was made professor of Naval Science and Tactics here, but at the end of three years he went back to sea in command of the U. S. S. "Houston." This probably was Captain Barker's favorite command, and he is quoted as having said sadly but proudly of the "Houston," "she went down fighting...