Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Portland...
Country-wide debate on Prohibition last week moved to new ground when the subject upcropped without warning before the American Medical Association meeting at Portland, Ore. (see p. 37). Heretofore at A. M. A. conventions, as at the gatherings of most other non-political organizations, liquor discussions have been avoided. At their Washington meeting two years ago, A. M. A. officers rigorously suppressed a Prohibition flare-up on the convention floor...
...Balmy Portland, Ore., last week well entertained what at torrid Minneapolis last year its representatives had fought and bargained for, the 80th convention of the American Medical Association. Portland is an expensive journey from the populous midwest and eastern medical centres, so the convention was not so well attended as have been most other recent ones. More nearly centralized, although hot, Detroit will have next summer's convention...
...general denunciation of sumptuary legislation was, of course, received as a specific condemnation of Prohibition.* It reverberated throughout the land. The loudest echo came from Clarence True Wilson, 57, Ph. B., LL. D., general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, who chanced to be in Portland at the moment.f Dr. Wilson declared that President Thayer had "railroaded" himself into office. He said: "I was in Washington looking on [at the 1927 A. M. A. Convention] when Dr. William Gerry Morgan was nominated for the presidency and without a campaign stood in a dignified...
...Manhattan, the Philharmonic last week began a twelfth season under the patronage of Adolph Lewisohn. Willem van Hoogstraten, winter conductor for Portland, Ore., is, for the eighth successive summer, conductor and cynosure at the nightly concerts in Lewisohn Stadium. Last week he had just returned from mountain climbing in Mittenwald, Bavaria (famed for violins), with his daughter Eleonor, eleven. Eleonor goes to school in Switzerland, prefers sailing on her father's 20-ft. sloop. Last week she went to Chicago to visit her divorced mother, Pianist Elly Ney.* Mr. van Hoogstraten's hobby is sailing; his horror, fishing...