Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States--they will lose whatever sympathy they have in the rest of the country. Their former acts in Oklahoma, which have largely brought about the present situation, have been of a nature to alienate public sentiment. But in other cases, such as in their reform measures in Portland City, they have accomplished much good...
Edward A. Stevens of Portland, Oregon, has been appointed as head coach to take charge of the rowing at the University this year. He succeeds Coach Muller who has resigned and has returned to Philadelphia...
...three of the new coaches come from Portland, Oregon. Stevens has been a champion single sculler and sweep oarsman. He was once a member of the Cornell crew and later assisted as a crew coach. Recently he has been connected with the Portland Rowing Club rowing with Newell on a champion 1923 crew. Shaw comes from the University of Washington where he captained last year's victorious eight...
...Portland, Oregon, saw the assembling of the seventh annual Convention of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women. Its president, Mrs. Lena Lake Forrest of Detroit, made her annual address, saying: " There seem to me to be but two issues or two programs before the world today-one a program of peace, the other a program of war. Which are we going to accept ? . . . The biggest thing that we business women can do is to use our influence and every effort in every way that tends toward the peace program of the world." Judge Florence E. Allen...
...Arkansas, but he is still an active member of the House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church. His book, Communism and Christianism, is one of the handbooks of the Communist Party, and because of the opinions expressed therein the House of Bishops at the Episcopal Convention in Portland, Oregon, last September was asked by the Diocese of Arkansas to depose him. This request was refused by the House on the ground that Bishop Brown was "mentally irresponsible." Then a committee of five bishops was appointed to ask Bishop Brown to tender his resignation voluntarily. He refused to meet them...