Article: Democracy and its discontents in Oregon political history.(STATEHOOD SESQUICENTENNIEL SERIES)(Essay)

Article: "Wheedling, wangling, and walloping" for progress: the public ...
Oregon Historical Quarterly;  September 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ...CORNELIA MARVIN PIERCE (1873-1957) is a formidable ... organizations, and government. Cornelia Marvin Pierce's career and liberal-reform ... 1999) described her friend Cornelia Marvin Pierce's leadership style in a 1959 ...

Article: The paradox of Oregon's progressive politics: the political ...
Oregon Historical Quarterly;  September 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... hours at the card catalog and in the book stacks of Eastern Oregon State College's Pierce Library, named after Cornelia Marvin Pierce and her husband Walter Marcus Pierce. Despite being a history major, I knew little about either Pierce--only ...

Article: The origins of the Oregon State Library.(RESEARCH FILES)
Oregon Historical Quarterly;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...THE FIRST OREGON STATE Librarian, Cornelia Marvin Pierce, had at least two occasions to publicly reflect on the origins of the Oregon State Library. Both times, she began the story ...

Article: Letters.(Letter to the editor)
Oregon Historical Quarterly;  June 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... 2006) and viewing the wonderful selection of photos that accompanied it. In the article, Scheppke included Cornelia Marvin Pierce's reflections on the state of Oregon's public libraries when she began her job as Oregon's first state librarian ...

Article: Maure L. Goldschmidt. (Obituary)
PS: Political Science & Politics;  September 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... at Chicago and C.C.N.Y., returned again to Reed in 1946, this time permanently. in 1950 he was named Cornelia Marvin Pierce Professor of American Institutions, a position he held until his retirement in 1974. He was subsequently awarded ...

Article: So many readers, so few libraries.(General News)(Lane Library ...
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR);  November 5, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... by Eugene librarian Carol Hildebrand for the Lane Library League's newsletter. In 1913, she wrote, state librarian Cornelia Marvin suggested that Eugene's library become the centerpiece of a countywide system. Several area library boards met to discuss ...

Article: JAMES PIERCE, 71; PUBLISHING CONSULTANT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  June 25, 1993 ;     487 words ... ... long illness, said his son Scott Pierce III. The son of Marvin Pierce, chairman of McCall's Corp., Pierce spent his entire ... a daughter, Margaret Peters of Rye; two other sons, Marvin Pierce II of Pensacola Beach, Fla., and James R. Pierce Jr ...