Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every quarter-century since 1850, the owners of the Portland Oregonian (circ. 219,442) have marked the anniversary of its founding with long histories of the paper and nostalgic backward looks at the growth of the Northwest. Though the Oregonian and its surroundings changed greatly through the years, its ownership did not. It stayed in the hands of descendants of early (1860) Owner Henry Lewis Pittock and his longtime editor, Harvey Whitefield Scott...
...University of Missouri's "distinguished newspaper" award as "more than a city newspaper-a tradition in the Northwest and a part of the life of the region." As a regional paper, much of the Oregonian's circulation was outside Portland proper until a few years ago. Then it started an early city edition, soon passed the rival Journal in circulation. In 1948 the prosperous Oregonian moved into a new $3,500,000 plant...
...city of Portland, Ore., which won the 1950 Community Human Relations Award for easing religious and racial tensions, voted down an ordinance which would have made it illegal to refuse service to non-whites in stores, hotels and restaurants...
...Market. In Portland, reported the Oregon Journal, a local dress shop put a placard in its window: "Maternity Fashions for the Modern Miss...
...Portland, Me., just before curtain time, Actress Lynn Fontanne fell, broke her left wrist, but went on to play her part in 7 Know My Love with husband Alfred Lunt...