Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philpot of V-12, Kirkland House, and Searsdale, New York; W. L. Jack Edwards of Adams House and Dallas, Texas; Stephen D. Becker of Adams House and Yonkers, New York; William Murphy and Robert W. Mullins of Dudley, the commuters' center; Victor J. Critchlow of Dunster House and Portland, Oregon; and Nathan Weston of Dunster House and Cambridge...
...road from San Francisco to Sacramento, Deputy Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davies ran out of gas in Vallejo. Though well-heeled with coupons, he could not find a dealer with gas. > In Portland, 12% of the gas stations closed. Busses were jammed with ex-autoists. Four hundred passengers tried to get aboard one night bus for Seattle...
...some 1,600 Japs before the war, had signs printed up: "We Don't Want the Japs Back Here Ever." The mother lodge (15,000 members) of the Fraternal Order of Eagles voted unanimously in Seattle to deport all U.S. Japanese after the war. So did the Portland Progressive Business Men's Club, and the Oregon State Legion. Hardly anyone ever bothered to distinguish between the alien Japanese, who are deportable, and U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry. A battalion of U.S.-born Japs is fighting well in the front line in Italy; another 2,500 Japanese-Americans...
...would be on the road again, following a schedule that calls for more than 90 concerts this year, 24 of them in the Library of Congress, four for the New Friends, twelve at a summer engagement at California's Mills College, and the rest in U.S. towns from Portland, Ore. to Annapolis...
HAROLD REIF Portland...