Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those named include Stephan D. Becker of Adams House and Yonkers, New York, Robert S. Gordon, Jr. of Adams House and Scarsdale, New York, John C. Babcock of Dunster House and Bayside, New York, Victor J. Critchlow of Dunster House and Portland, Oregon, Richard A. Green of Lowell House and Trenton, New Jersey James R. Hollis of Lowell House and Los Angeles, California, Frederick P. Murphy of Lowell House and East Norwalk, Connecticut, Robert E. Barry of Dudley Hall and Cambridge, James C. Dolan of V-12, Eliot House, and Wyandotte, Michigan, and Robert E. Philpot of V-12, Kirkland...
ANNABELLE SHUR POLLARD Portland...
Trim, dark-eyed Anne Josephine Shofner gave a party last week in Portland. Ore. She fed baked beans to the city's politicos, Navy brass hats and scores of grimy workers. On her guest of honor, decked out in roses, glutted with pigiron, she splattered champagne. After the party, the guest-a $70,000 Lectromelt furnace-went hotly to work turning out steel for Mrs. Shofner's steel casting plant...
...Back in Portland, she picked a site for her steel plant, flew to Washington, successfully besieged Federal officials for defense contracts. White-haired, handsome Edward R. Stettinius Jr. (then director of priorities for OPM) chortled: "Say, she's about three jumps ahead...
...Said the Portland Oregonian's stunned Edwin Palmer Hoyt (TIME, July 5), the new OWI domestic director: "I came here because I believed that this job could be done along simple lines, like you'd run a newspaper. God damn...