Word: multnomah
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...Maine, while on the Atlantic Coast it is taken for granted that anyone from Portland means Maine's." On top of that, he pointed out, there are more than a dozen other Portlands in the U.S.* The committee suggested an Oregon Indian name first noted by Lewis & Clark: Multnomah...
Though Portland is already used to the word (it is in Multnomah County, and has both a Multnomah Hotel and a Multnomah College), most of the citizenry showed boredom or open hostility to the idea. Local officials seemed genuinely horrified at the prospect of the expense and bother involved. Cried another Portland writer, Richard L. Neuberger, in summing up the general reaction: "I think Neuberger is a hell of a name, too, but . . . I'm not going to change...
...Surrender. Before long Mike had split the Oregon Democratic Party, had demoralized operations at the Multnomah County Courthouse, had gotten involved in bitter feuds with the county commissioners and the Civil Service Commission. But Portland was sure that Mike was cooked at last. By last weekend 29,000 of 30,000 signatures necessary for a recall election had been gathered...
Portland's reform mayor, trim, grey Mrs. Dorothy ("I will enforce the law") Lee, was getting unexpected support last week in her drive to clean up Portland. It came from no less a person than Mike Elliott, the beefy, tousle-headed new sheriff of Multnomah County, which surrounds Portland...
After he watched for a while, Mike went into action. By the time he began to move, rumors were going the rounds that he had actually been elected by Multnomah County gambling interests. He denied it, and to prove that he wasn't fibbing, began raiding gambling dens right & left in his county bailiwick on Portland's fringes...