Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story centers on Stewart's efforts to get a band of settlers established northwest of Portland, Oregon during the good old days. The real trouble comes when a gold-rush so corrupts Portland's Boss that he fails to send the settlers their winter supplies. Stewart and a band of Portland men steal the supplies and set out over a mountain range toward the settlement...
Qualifications. In Portland, Ore., an Oregonian advertiser offered to rent a "newlyweds' dream house" to a couple with "no children under...
...Leading. In Portland, even an 18-hour day wasn't long enough. While Taft was talking with a farm-business group, local G.O.P. men grabbed his arm and tried to take him off to another conference, explaining: "You'll just have to excuse us; the Senator's way behind schedule." Bob Taft, who doesn't like to be led around by the arm, turned abruptly away from the politicos. "We have time for more questions," he said sharply. After a conference with organized labor representatives, a C.I.O. Marine Cooks & Stewards Union director said: "He seems like...
Lady Possessed (Portland; Republic) resuscitates that familiar figure of movie melodrama: a living person haunted by the spirit of the dead...
...Abbot Low Mills, 53, Republican, first vice president of the Portland (Ore.) U.S. National Bank, replacing Marriner Eccles, who resigned last June (TIME, June 25) with more than six years of a regular 14-year term to go. A lifelong banker from a banking family, Mills shares Martin's view that Federal Reserve policy should be independent and not dominated by the Treasury, a policy that Eccles helped reaffirm before he quit...