Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tech 5th Grade Roy E. Fabian, Jr., and Miss Evelyn Frappier of Portland, Me., were married at the bride's home September 4. She will live in Portland...
...Leaving Portland last week, Mayor Riley was unabashed by his mission. Said he: "I'm going to talk to everyone, from the hoi polloi on down. . . . I've got one helluva responsibility ahead...
...Maritime Commission had spent a lot of money to make sure that workers got cheap, comfortable transportation from downtown Portland, Ore. to three Kaiser shipyards. One million dollars was paid for two ferries which in gayer days had taken San Francisco vacationists across the Bay to the World Fair. Now, for 10?, a worker could buy a round-trip ferry ticket to the Swan Island yards or the Oregon Shipbuilding Co. Twenty railroad cars were purchased from the Southern Pacific. These offered a round trip to the Vancouver yards...
Associate Justice William Orville Douglas of the U.S. Supreme Court came down out of the Wallowa Mountains to Portland, Ore. He confessed that, during nearly three vacation months in his cabin, whose radio is busted, he had read "about six newspapers," had no idea what was going...
...John Citizen, anywhere from Portland, Ore., to Portland, Me., is he against war and he will say Yes, sure. Sure he's against war. Even smack in the midst of a war that is being won, war in the abstract, war in the future, is about as popular as the man-eating shark. Sure he's against...