Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...setting it afire with cigarette lighters. "Beck's been talking about us paying for his defense fund," growled a Seattle taxi driver. "We been hanging around the cab stands all day trying to figure out how to slip some dough to the prosecution." Said a truck driver in Portland, Ore.: "It's high time that somebody finds out what's happening to the $5.50 a month I shell out in dues." As Dave Beck headed back home to Seattle, he proclaimed that he would raise $1,000,000 to tell "the facts," but his own secretary-treasurer...
...Have you any ideas?" Mollenhoff, who had been writing stories about corruption and abuses in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters for six years, indeed had an idea: the Teamsters. He showed Kennedy some of his clippings, and emphasized the national significance of what newsmen had been digging up in Portland, Ore. Bob Kennedy promptly called together his staff, and an investigation was born...
...first of several stops on an underground railroad manned by friends and relatives. Her husband followed. Together they moved to Levittown, Pa. (then left after Hildy was mentioned in a newspaper as a birthday-party guest), White Plains, N.Y., New York City, Thompsonville, Conn., Scarsdale, N.Y., and Portland...
...even if he made the grade by the fall of 1957, his starting salary as a teacher ($3,700) would be nearly $250 less than he would be making as a janitor. But Charlotte Bixby encouraged him to go ahead. While hanging on to his job, Bix enrolled at Portland State College, later switched...
Last week, with a B.S. assured him, Bix was invited into the office of School Superintendent J. W. Edwards, signed the agreement that will make him a full-fledged teacher in the Portland school system next fall. But for Bix, all this is only the first step in his new career. Eventually, he hopes to earn an M.A. and to specialize in teaching handicapped children. "You see," says he, "I have a boy who is practically blind. And he wants so much to be accepted as a normal boy, to do the things that are expected of a normal...