Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charged with enforcement of control of foreign commerce. Ruddy, white-haired ex-Congressman John J. Dempsey handles the Commission's business affairs, walks around amid a litter of real-estate deeds, letters from Chambers of Commerce in cities where new yards are building, from Baltimore to Houston to Portland...
Nancy Merlci, perky 15-year-old Portland, Ore. schoolgirl, who took up swimming five years ago to help recovery from infantile paralysis, kept her 440-yd. freestyle title in the near-record-breaking time...
...mutual mistrust soured their employe relations. A Seattle Guild strike heavily sapped circulation and advertising; they had to pay seven months' back wages besides. Fumbling editorial policy cost still more heavily. In order to pay the installments due Sanders, they had to sell two profitmakers, the Portland News-Telegram and the San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune...
...Jensen, also of Portland, holds a limited ticket for the Willamette and Columbia Rivers...
Last week a Portland, Maine court decision brought temporary relief to the family of famed Medicine Woman Lydia Estes Pinkham. The court dismissed her granddaughter's bill in equity seeking to place the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. in receivership...