Word: salem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oregon farm, he went to Leland Stanford University. Like his running mate, he was a lawyer. He began his political career in 1906 as an Assistant District Attorney. In 1917 he went to the Senate. Still a farmer at heart, whenever he can leave Washington he makes tracks for Salem, Ore., where he owns a farm, bird sanctuary, an experimental laboratory, in which he developed the world's largest prune, the Imperial. Nuts are also a hobby, especially filberts...
Senator McNary has the wise and cynical expression of an old bachelor, though he has been widowed once, is now married to the former Cornelia Morton, who was told of her husband's nomination while she was in a Salem grocery store. Said Mrs. McNary: "I couldn't believe it. Charles had wired me this morning that he wouldn't accept the nomination...
...scraps from other people's patent tables. It has not been a bad living. Hygrade has missed no dividend since 1921, earned $856,807 on an $11,022,424 gross last year. But last week Hygrade directors began to move out from under the table. Gathered in their Salem, Mass, office, they voted $250,000 (or more if needed) for a new factory. Its product-to-be: fluorescent lighting, in which Hygrade owns basic patents...
John F. Brooks '41 of Eliot House and Salem has been named Chairman of the Senior Album for next year, it was announced last night. Plans for starting work on the album were projected at the meeting of the Album Committee, and work was allotted to several members of the committee...
They had been taken over by the Portland bank, merged with the staff of its former Salem branch. Sorrowing Salemites sat back and waited for the inevitable announcement of Asahel II's retirement...