Word: asahel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...