Word: salem
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Time Clock. In Salem, Ore., after Governor Douglas McKay signed a bill putting the state on daylight saving time, the phone company set about trying to trace the caller who buzzed the governor's mansion around 5 every morning and shrilled: "It's time to go to work...
Mary Jane Wade '52, of Salem has been elected president of the Radcliffe Commuter Organization, it was announced last night...
...expert on that," replied Putnam. "My family was involved in the Salem witch-hunts. One of my ancestors, on my father's side, was the attorney who broke them...
They never have to wait long. In the aging brick office of the Oregon Statesman, seven blocks downtown from the state capitol in Salem, Publisher Charles Arthur Sprague has probably already tapped out his views for the next day's "It Seems to Me" column. Twenty years of such thoughtful, solid editorial guidance has given 63-year-old Republican Charlie Sprague the prestige of an elder statesman, made the Statesman, despite its small (15,940) circulation, one of the clearest voices in the Pacific Northwest...
Oregon Style. Trumpeting into the legislature's ear is no novelty for the Statesman. It has been doing it for exactly 100 years, as Salem's top citizens reminded Charlie Sprague at a special anniversary luncheon last week. In 1851, first Editor Asahel Bush wanted the territorial capital moved from Oregon City to Salem, characterized those who disagreed as "Lickspittles and toadies of official whiggery." Such Statesman invective soon became known as the "Oregon style" of journalism. Wrote Bush, about his bitter opponent, the Portland Oregonian: "There is not a brothel in the land that would not have...