Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lucretia Mott Amendment (giving women equal rights with men) and securing its passage by Congress. So said a delegation from the "National Woman's Party, guests at the Summer White House. State laws which "restrict the economic freedom of women" are objectionable, said Miss Gail Laughlin, lawyer of Portland, Me., first vice chairman of the Party. It took men long years of fighting to get a standard eight-hour day, but it is the eight-hour day for women that the Woman's Party is vigorously opposing. The obvious difference between male and female eight-hour days...
Between July 20?31: Hartford, Providence, Boston, Portland, Me. ; Concord, N. H.; Springfield, Vt.; Albany, Buffalo, Syracuse...
...Christian Endeavor movement among young people is comparatively recent. The late Rev. Francis E. Clark, who died last May, founded it Feb. 2, 1881, at his Williston Congregational Church in Portland, Me. Members were obliged to pledge themselves to attend weekly prayer meetings of their local society. So sound was Dr. Clark's idea that 80 evangelical religious denominations have sponsored the movement. It has societies in 60 different countries; has more than 3,500,000 members. Of these members 20,000 went to Cleveland last week...
Seven out of every ten stockholders in the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern railroads, through a committee, last week formally decided to lease their lines for 99 years to a new company, the Great Northern Pacific Railway Co. These paired roads operate from Chicago to Spokane, Portland and Seattle-territory also served by the competitive Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul...
John Milton Slade '28, of New Britain, Connecticut was elected vice-president, Albert Sidney Edmonds, Jr. '28, of Portland, Oregon treasurer, T. A. Taylor '28, of Stony Brook, Long Island corresponding secretary and cataloger and Richard, Currier Waldron '28, of Somerville recording secretary...