Word: salem
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...McNary-Haugen Act, forerunner of all farm subsidies. Not a man of international vision, but possessor of conscience and integrity, he veered back & forth on intervention before Pearl Harbor. These attitudes told as much of his origin as his thinking. He was born and all his life lived in Salem, Ore. (pop. 30,900), the town whence his grandfather had led the biggest caravan of covered wagons ever to cross the Oregon Trail. On his 300-acre farm, "Fir Cone," McNary's house was shaded by Douglas firs 175 feet tall. An expert orchardist, he grew prize filberts...
Died. Carl August de Gersdorff, 78, senior member of the famed Manhattan law firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood; after long illness; in Manhattan. Born in Salem, Mass., the son of a doctor, he went to Harvard ('87), became associated with a predecessor of the present firm in 1891, after four years was made a partner, was best known for his work in railroad reorganizations (Denver & Rio Grande, Missouri Pacific, Kansas & Texas, Western Pacific, and Frisco) and his active longtime directorships of the Baltimore & Ohio and the Missouri Pacific. His death leaves Robert Taylor Swaine, 57, the only...
...Salem, Ore., Martha Hager sued a bus company for $28,000, declared that one of the company's workers had looked over a crowd of passengers, including herself, and observed: "You all look like a bunch of pigs...
Common Carrier. In Salem, Ore., outraged Martha Hager sued a bus company for $28,000, declared that one of the company's workers had looked over a crowd of waiting passengers, including herself, and observed: "You all look like a bunch of pigs...
Infant No. 2. Last week, WPB acted to forestall this possibility. It approved construction of a $4,000,000 alumina refinery plant at Salem, Ore., by another infant, Columbia Metals Corp. The new member of the family is fathered by such West Coast bigwigs as Boeing President Philip Johnson, President Eric Johnston of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Weyerhauser Timber Company's Norton Clapp. The plant, to be built with DPC cash, will produce alumina from the West Coast's vast beds of clay. It will be the first plant in the U.S. to use this process...