Word: sarena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Neuberger will doubtless be well received by Oregon's reactionary G.O.P.s. Possibly Neuberger's comments on the President's health in connection with the forthcoming campaign were illadvised, but they hardly justified the crocodile tears of William Knowland. TIME'S resume of the Al Sarena investigation, however, constitutes, if not a nosedive, at least a pratfall. Those of us who were familiar with the mine before it was glamorized by the Al Sarena label know it as a forlorn hope. Your whitewash of the case might serve its purpose elsewhere in the nation...
...dive" I chuckled over (TIME'S naiveté) was Al Sarena's mining of timber-but best expressed by Congresswoman Edith Green's quatrain...
...thought that I would never see A mining claim that was a tree; Mines are mined by fools we see, While Al Sarena mines the trees...
...Drew Pearson's week. First, Columnist Pearson apologized for his recent charge (branded a "scurrilous lie" by Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty) that President Eisenhower had taken a hand in the "giveaway" of Oregon timberland to Al Sarena Mines, Inc. (TIME, Feb. 6). Next, after five expensive years of legal maneuvers, Pearson quietly dropped his $5,100,000 damage and libel suits against Senator Joe McCarthy, Columnists Westbrook Pegler, Fulton Lewis Jr., and six others (TIME, March 12, 1951). At week's end, having thus turned both cheeks, Pearson was slapped with a $250,000 libel suit...
Columnist Drew Pearson last week tried to revive the Al Sarena investigation. He wrote that President Eisenhower had personally intervened with Interior Secretary Douglas McKay on behalf of the mine's owners. In the Senate Interior Committee files, Pearson claimed, was a letter with a marginal notation in the President's handwriting, asking McKay "to see what he could do about granting" Al Sarena's request. That day the committee scurried through its files in search of the letter. It was not located for the reason that it did not exist. White House Press Secretary James Hagerty...