Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Incoming N.A.M. President Ernest G. (for Goodnough) Swigert of Portland, Ore, also was troubled by the tax system : "We must make a complete change in our whole theory of taxation. The tax system should be designed for raising revenue and not for reforming society." Swigert warned against adding to inflation by overstimulating production, cited "the ridiculous 1955 production race" of auto manufacturers...
Even if he had never ventured beyond his own field, Frank Loxley Griffin, 75, would still have enjoyed a reputation as a distinguished mathematician. But to little (650 students) Reed College in Portland, Ore., Griff has always been a great deal more than that. When he retired in 1952 after 41 years, the college thought it had lost not only a beloved teacher, but a man who as much as any had made Reed the lively and respected campus that...
...Shipping Association to give the reason: I.L.A. contracts had expired and "the employers have failed to grant [our] just demands." That morning 25,000 New York longshoremen responded to the strike call, and by week's end they had been joined by 35,000 other I.L.A. members from Portland. Me. to Brownsville, Texas. For the first time in the I.L.A.'s checkered history it had effectively paralyzed every major port along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts (and there was the possibility that the strike might spread to the West Coast, where members of Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen...
...Final Shot. Weyer now had only to substantiate Violet's story with physical proof. Into the case came Ballistics Expert Stanley MacDonald, Multnomah County detective chief in Portland, Ore. MacDonald examined fabric shreds, wall sections, photographs, figured the directions of the four shots, compared firings from the shotgun. Two months later he presented his findings: Marion Sill had fired three times at Violet, then reloaded the gun; the fourth shot, which entered Sill's neck from a perpendicular angle, was the one that splattered his flesh on the ceiling, the one that Violet triggered from the floor. Furthermore...
...founding of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, in 1911 was another important advance in recent history of American education. Reed has become reknowned for its progressive educational and administrative policies. Students are not told their marks. Instead, they receive only comments on their work from faculty advisors...