Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Qualification Course. In Portland, Me., Mrs. Lorraine E. Hughes, suing for divorce, testified that her husband wanted her to learn a list of words from the dictionary every night, as he did, and to study to become "worthy...
...result: the sordid story of Beck's business interests and his own queasy evasions (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) unfolded in living rooms in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, St. Louis, Fresno, Phoenix and Portland as well as Washington and Seattle. Late in the week the impromptu network added three more stations, Baltimore's WAAM, WBAL and WMAR, the second time in the week that these three gave their networks a pointed lesson in public service. One classic network argument against special live news coverage is the heavy cost in sponsored shows that must be canceled. The three Baltimore stations produced...
...complex as the U.S., it takes more than one man, or one newspaper, or one committee to focus the national attention on a serious problem. While the U.S. Senate's McClellan committee has produced the national headlines on labor racketeering, it was vigilant newsmen, from Des Moines to Portland, Ore. and back to Scranton, Pa., who sparked the Senate investigation and provided the scattered local fragments (TIME, June 4, et seq.) that fell into a nationwide kaleidoscope of corruption and violence. The pattern of partnership showed sharply this week as Senator John McClellan's men wound up their...
...even have penetrated to the Teamster chieftain's big-time peccadilloes. But Turner and Lambert gave McClellan's men a slam-bang first act that stirred immediate nationwide support for the inquiry and propelled the investigation straight to Western Conference Boss Frank Brewster, key figure in the Portland scandal. From there it was a short hop into Dave Beck's plush Seattle parlor...
...Newhouse's staid Oregonian -a comfortable, conservative newspaper that is normally inclined to sit back and rock on Portland's front porch-it was a tough and hazardous story. Judged by his police record, Racket Boss Elkins was, at best, an impeachable source. The villains in Elkins' story were not men to meddle with lightly-a Teamster organizer and ex-convict, as well as Multnomah County District Attorney William Langley and Sheriff (now Mayor) Terry Schrunk, both Teamster protégés. After listening to 70 hours of conversations between the key figures, tape-recorded...