Word: salem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They read: "Ladd & Bush Salem-Branch of the United States National Bank of Portland." For 71 years (almost the age of Salem) it had kept the money of Salem and the inhabitants of Oregon's lush Willamette Valley. Together the three had prospered...
Salemites strolling past the corner of State & Commercial Streets one day last week stared sorrowfully at cardboard placards in the arched windows of the old Salem, Ore. firm of Ladd & Bush, Bankers...
...Massachusetts attorney and printer, had clapped a printing press into the hold of a Yankee clipper for the 15,000-mile voyage round the Horn, lit out himself by packet boat for the rich, raw, pioneer Oregon Territory. He founded the Oregon Statesman at Oregon City, later moved to Salem when it was made the Territorial capital, became State printer, by 1862 was rich enough to retire from the publishing business...
...long as any Salemite can recall, the Bushes have been Salem's first family, its only millionaires. Asahel II had three sisters, the most notable of whom is quaint, petite Miss Sally, who lives in a big old house in the 40-acre "wilderness" Asahel I bought in mid-Salem, a block from the State capitol. There she cut fresh flowers each morning to pretty up the Bush Bank's lobby. There she pastured her cows. Asahel II 's son was no banker, dabbled in world travel, social pastimes. Of the grandsons, one, Asahel IV ("Tito...
...whose civic vigor TIME salutes, misconstrued the intended meaning of "eke out." Its irony, TIME supposed, was as plain as Helena's backyard Mt. Ascension and Mt. Helena. Whether second richest U. S. city or not is something for Helena to fight out with such claimants as Winston-Salem, N. C., Pasadena, Calif., Greenwich, Conn., Dallas, Texas, Washington...