Word: portlands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...baffling problem of what to do about the birthplace of Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a dilapidated house in Portland, Me., was resolved when the poet's Alma Mater, Bowdoin College, decided to duplicate it on the campus' using the original furnishings, woodwork and mantels to achieve authenticity...
Died. Helen Richardson Dreiser, 61, widow of Novelist Theodore Dreiser (An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie), author of My Life with Dreiser; of a heart attack, after being bedridden since 1951: in Portland...
...Portland...
When the collection plate came around, lonely Verna Burke dropped in a note along with her contribution: Was there any kind of club or organization in the church for divorced people? There wasn't, so the Rev. Paul Davie of Portland's Piedmont Presbyterian Church went to work founding one, with 40-year-old divorcee Burke and four others from his congregation as a nucleus. After it was publicized through an interview with Mrs. Burke in the Portland Oregonian, some 200 calls swamped the church. People wanted to know if there were restrictions as to faith (no), place...
...NLRB ruled that it did not have the power to force a labor union, when it is an employer, to use fair labor practices. In Portland. Ore., when the Teamsters Union discovered that its 23 office workers wanted to join an A.F.L. Office Employees Union, it fired five, threatened the rest. NLRB decided that a union, as a nonprofit organization, is not under NLRB jurisdiction...