Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headed West last week to speak at a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Portland, Ore., Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson suddenly looked, to wistful brigades of Administration Democrats, like a presidential candidate all over again. He was not only on the ballot in Oregon, but he was traveling 1,900 miles to speak to the voters of the Pacific Northwest. No, cried Adlai, no, no, no, no. This line of reasoning was all a horrible mistake. He had agreed to make the speech months ago, and somebody had slipped his name on the ballot without his consent...
...soon as he got to Portland, Stevenson began urging the citizenry not to vote for him. He was not, he said, "participating" in the Oregon primary and would have long since withdrawn from the ballot if the law had allowed him to do so. "At the time you invited me, you may have thought you were getting a candidate for President. Instead all you got was a candidate for governor of Illinois. I hope you don't feel . . . deceived and defrauded." Almost 600 delighted Democrats, who had paid $10 apiece to attend the dinner, cheered him lustily and decided...
...thousand yards out in no man's, land, Baker Company dropped off its third platoon in blocking position, sent the other two prowling north, past the moonlit hulks of three wrecked U.N. tanks. In a group of medics behind the skirmish line, Corporal Donald Reddick of Portland, Tenn., carrying a litter, had just slithered off the end of a paddy dike when the Chinese opened fire. Rifle bullets snapped overhead and then the enemy charged out of the dike shadows, throwing grenades. One exploded near Reddick, smashed his right knee. "I'm hit!" he shouted. The man next...
Local Public Service: KPOJ, Portland, Ore., for helping teen-agers through Careers Unlimited, and community interest through Civic Theater...
...Louis Robertson disqualified himself because he was deputy comptroller of the currency when his office, two years ago, permitted Transamerica to sell 22 banks to the Bank of America (TIME, July 10, 1950). Abbot L. Mills, who came to the board from the U.S. National Bank of Portland, Ore., disqualified himself because his former boss had testified for Transamerica...