Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Portland's Democratic Mayor Terry Schrunk, elected with Teamster help, had agreed to take a lie-detector test to help him refute testimony that he had, as sheriff of Multnomah County, taken a $500 bribe from a gambler. But when he went to take the test, Schrunk objected to six questions (e.g., "While sheriff, did you receive any payoffs from any gamblers?"), stalked out. Later he told the committee: "Apparently they were aimed at trying to make me flunk the test...
...County's Teamster-sponsored District Attorney William Langley, 40, under indictment at home on malfeasance charges, repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment in refusing to answer the committee's questions. Then Langley sat pasty-faced while the committee played tape recordings (taken by Star Witness James Elkins, a Portland racketeer) identified as Langley's conversations with Gamblers Tom Maloney and Joe McLaughlin. A Langley sample: "So the prostitution is out. And now it's no good, and we don't want it anyway, and it's too dangerous ... So the only...
...Reginald Mikesell, secretary-treasurer of the Teamsters' joint council in Portland, told how most of his unit's records since 1954 (the Portland period in which the committee was generally interested) had been destroyed to save storage space. This, said Mikesell, was "taking the path of least resistance." Questioned about a $5,000 check he had made out to Bill Langley's attorney, Mikesell said he had no idea what it was for. When the committee expressed astonishment at his lapse of memory, Mikesell commented blandly: "It does seem a little silly, doesn...
...more they observed him during his first months on the job as night janitor in 1951, the more the pupils and teachers of the Edwin Markham Elementary School in the Portland, Ore. school district began to realize that there was something special about shy, quiet Horace Bixby. Because of the Depression, "Bix" had never finished college. But he had an obvious talent for science and mechanics-and an even more important knack for getting along with children. He brought them birds and fish to study and care for. He built them an incubator, a model cloud chamber...
...nationwide probe of labor racketeering, the committee is scheduled to look into the situations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Minneapolis and perhaps a dozen other cities. And if the carefully prepared Portland hearings are any standard, U.S. labor racketeering is in for a thorough, top-to-bottom airing...