Word: portlanders
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Yale & Starvation. Rothko's father was a Russian Jewish pharmacist who took his family to the U.S. in 1913. Rothko grew up in Portland, Ore., with nary a thought of becoming an artist: he wanted to be a labor leader. He attended Yale, dropped out to ''wander around, bum about, starve a bit." It was not until 1925, when he was 22, that he settled down in Manhattan to attend Max Weber's art classes at the Art Students League. He did not stay long. As a painter, Mark Rothko is almost wholly self-taught...
...roads, the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific, and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (98% owned by the G.N. and the N.P.), petitioned the ICC to allow them to merge into a single, vast new system to be called the Great Northern Pacific & Burlington. In addition, the short (936 miles) Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, built and wholly owned by the N.P. and the G.N., would be operated after the merger under a ten-year lease, presumably would then be absorbed by the giant as well. With 24,728 miles of track, the new line would be the longest...
...Newcomers: Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, Los Angeles-Long Beach, St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo., Peoria, Akron, Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, Asheville, Corpus Christi, Flint, Grand Rapids, Knoxville, Louisville, Mobile, Newark, New Brunswick-Perth Amboy, Portland, Ore., Savannah, Tacoma, Toledo, Trenton, Worcester, and York...
...Canadian but a Russian. He soon found occasion to journey to Weymouth on Britain's southern coast, where he somehow made contact with Henry Houghton, 55. Ex-Navy Petty Officer Houghton was a clerical officer at the Royal Navy's heavily guarded underwater experimental station at nearby Portland. According to Houghton, Lonsdale identified himself as "Commander Alexander Johnson of the U.S. naval attache's office," and explained that the U.S. was anxious to know if U.S. information supplied to the British was being acted upon...
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