Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side of the tracks, Ernie is the sort of stop-at-nothing cartoon capitalist who not only moved over to the right side-he also bought the tracks. The camera discovers him, in sleek middle age, roaring it up as the beast of the board room of the Eastern & Portland Railroad, whose cringing miscellany of vice presidents is pleading with the "general," as he likes to be called, not to ruin a poor helpless widow (Doris Day) and her two small children. With surly reluctance, he consents to make a nominal restitution to the "miserable broad" for her shipment...
...PORTLAND OREGON JOURNAL : As a citizen of Oregon, we are ashamed of Senator Morse's role in the whole affair...
...PORTLAND OREGONIAN: The strange, brilliant, ruthless man who is Oregon's senior Senator, Wayne Lyman Morse, reached the full stature of a demagogue in his campaign to prevent Clare Boothe Luce from serving as Ambassador of the United States to Brazil. In subverting the will of the President and 79 colleagues in the Senate who voted to confirm the nomination, Senator Morse won what may seem to him a victory over his chosen enemy, President Eisenhower. But many of his constituents are ashamed...
Also elected were Andrew L. Griffin, of Kirkland House and Portland, Ore., English; Julius B. Levine, of Winthrop House and Waterville, Me., Economics; Stephen Lichtenbaum, of Eliot House and Brooklyn, N.Y., Mathematics; Charles W. Maynes Jr. of Adams House and Salt Lake City, Utah, History; and Edward B. Segel, of Adams House and Everett, History...
...shrewd Businessman Newhouse has been completely fascinated by newspapers ("I like the glamour"), has memorized such a store of data about the nation's press that he can often calculate within minutes whether or not to buy: in 1955 he decided to pay $5,500,000 for the Portland Oregonian after a single phone call. Only two of his 14 papers were solidly in the black at purchase (the Oregonian and the Birmingham News); now all are making money...