Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Riley, who was a student in the Harvard Law School in 1900-01, is a lawyer in Portland, Oregon, and has become well known throughout the country as one of the foremost authorities on our National Parks. He is as well a poet and musician of distinction...
Once an Eastern newspaper ran on its front page a box headed, "Who Robert Dollar Is." Under this caption were listed his formal titles and offices-President Dollar Steamship Company, Robert Dollar Company, Admiral Oriental Company, Dollar Portland Lumber Company, etc. etc., Director of the American International Corporation, Anglo-London and Paris Bank, San Francisco Savings Bank. Dollar ships, Dollar wood, Dollar banks, Dollar offices in eastern cities the smooth plate-glass windows of which are never molested even when yellow men demonstrate with sabotage the unpopularity of foreign capital. Listed, these things suggest but fail to explain Robert Dollar...
...been appointed second assistant manager of the University track team it was announced last night by the Harvard Athletic Association. Galston, who prepared at Exeter Academy and who lives at Woodmere, Long Island, will be manager of the University team in his Senior year. Raymond Edward Dame '30 of Portland, Maine, was second in the competition. Dame prepared at the Portland High School. He will be manager of the cross country team next year and associate manager in his Senior year...
...eleven ships of the Oregon Oriental Line, plying from Portland to China and Japan-sold to a corporation headed by Vice President K. D. Dawson of the Columbia Pacific Shipping...
...have noticed that you have listed Portland, Ore., as "The Rose City" (TIME, Jan. 30). This city has maintained that title for some thirty-two years or more. However, without research we know of three other cities which have adopted the slogan of "The City of Roses"-i. e., Little Rock, Ark.; Thomasville, Ga.; and Victoria, Texas...