Word: portlanders
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Robert Hale, forthright Portland (Me.) lawyer, former Rhodes Scholar, former State representative, member of a family that has represented Maine in the U.S. Senate almost continuously since 1881. An all-out supporter of the Roosevelt foreign policy, Republican Robert Hale, 52, had to defend himself in the election against an article he wrote for Harper's Magazine in 1936 entitled: But I, Too, Hate Roosevelt* revived by toothy Democrat Louis J. Brann. Maine's voters liked Bale's defense: "I am probably the most outspoken advocate in Maine of President Roosevelt's foreign policies. Also...
Name News. In Syracuse. Oassie Stimer had his name legally changed to Stanley Steamer. At Rutgers University, Robert Louis Stevenson enrolled in an elementary course in English composition. In Detroit, the Housing Commission pondered evicting Worthy Peoples for not paying his rent. In Portland, Ore., E. L. Aprill and T. B. Showers enlisted in the Navy. In Baltimore, L. B. Mercier was refused a job because he had no first name-just initials. On Guadalcanal, Lieut. Dan Gaede dived into a foxhole, landed on top of Lieut. Commander Dan E. Gaede, a stranger, who turned out to be a cousin...
...would like to advise that the Liberty vessel, S.S. Jason Lee, launched from the Kaiser Co.'s Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. on June 27, 1942, was christened by Mrs. Walter E. Harris, wife of Walter E. Harris, Negro swing shift porter. . . . HAL BABBITT Publicity Director Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. Portland...
...Rich. In Portland a new nonunion worker pays $20 (helpers) to $30 (mechanics) as initiation fee, then $3 to $3.50 a month dues. In other cities fees and dues are almost as large. So, with perhaps 175,000 initiates since the war boom began, the union's take would be about...
Glamorous. White-haired, farsighted Thomas Ray, IBBMISBWHA's business agent in Portland, was a boilermaker during World War I's shipbuilding boom, saw union funds wasted then, decided to avoid similar squandering this time by building a marble-fronted palace for his union on Portland's Third Avenue. To querulous persons who wonder how this prevents waste, Tommy Ray explains: "This is no extravagance. When the boom is over, the money we'll make off our bowling alleys alone will keep the building going...