Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Remembering that one night later another television extravaganza would celebrate the President's 66th birthday, Mrs. Samuel Harper of Portland, Me. rose, asked what present Ike most wanted. Said he: "Exactly the same as ... every other American ... an assurance that a just peace [is] on the horizon...
...Oregon Journal of Portland, Ore., which backed Adlai Stevenson in 1952, switched to Eisenhower. Reason: Ike "has grown tremendously in office," while "in the heat of the present campaign Stevenson is not talking sense...
...agreed last week to extend his personal barnstorming to Pittsburgh-because pockets of unemployment in Western Pennsylvania represent a danger to Republican candidates, particularly Senator James H. Duff. His newly announced campaign trip to the Midwest and Northwest in mid-October-with speeches planned in Minneapolis, Seattle, Tacoma and Portland-has a similar purpose. In Minnesota the Republican ticket is endangered by farm unrest; in Washington and Oregon he has given Arthur Langlie and Douglas McKay his backing for the Senate, and he feels honor bound to support them in their uphill races. But the President has shown little concern...
...trip has been dogged by mishaps, bungles, delays and breakdowns, from the plane's mimeograph machine to the press bus, which left the newsmen on an Oregon roadside thumbing rides to the Portland airport. One unscheduled dash in Michigan sent the party on a breakneck 82-mile round-trip drive to the Mackinac Straits Bridge, which Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams insisted on showing to Kefauver for the benefit of photographers. A padlock had to be broken before the candidate could get on the structure after nightfall-to greet a crowd of five workmen and one woman...
...victory. Lewiston Lawyer and Democratic State Chairman Frank M. Coffin fared even more spectacularly by winning, for the first time in 22 years, the Democratic congressional seat in the industrial (Lewiston) Second District. Democrat James C. Oliver lost his fight for Congressman from the industrial First District (Portland) to five-term Representative Robert Hale by only 28 votes, and may apply for a recount. Democrats won 63 seats in the 184-member state legislature- an increase of 23, six of them in Portland alone-to knock out the Republicans' two-thirds veto power in the house...