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Free photos from the US Government of the McNary Lock and Dam, located on the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington and built in 1953 are located at www.nww.usace.army.mil. Some of the free photos may include pictures of Charles L. McNary. -- Suntag ☼ 15:53, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
I've dusted the hard-to-reach places, added alt text to the images, and tweaked the layout to meet Manual of Style guidelines. The article seems comprehensive to me, although I might not be the best judge of that since this is my first serious encounter with McNary. I'd suggest a peer review (PR) as the next step before heading to FAC. I'd be happy to seek a review via the PR system. Shall I? Finetooth ( talk) 16:59, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm making a few more additions and tweaks. Just added a paragraph, citing Neal, about McNary's ability to get along with progressives, main-line Republicans, and his boyhood friend, Oswald West, a Democrat. One of the suggestions in the FAC was that a little more background be included for readers outside the U.S. Finetooth ( talk) 02:50, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Gordon B. Dodds in Oregon: A History devotes a couple of pages to McNary. Key sentences might be (1) "Republican conservatives were ascendant during the twenties, although the progressive wing of the party, led by Charles Linza McNary and Charles Sprague, gained in the following decade" and (2) "Senator McNary was the state's only national figure in these years, and his legislative impact was the most crucial area of domestic politics for Oregonians, that of natural resources." He credits McNary for the Clarke-McNary Act, which Congress passed in 1924 and "was the motivating force in making Oregon state forestry effective" as well as his sponsorship of the McNary-Haugen bill, which, though twice vetoed by Coolidge, "was an important precedent for New Deal farm legislation." Dodds says that McNary kept the Republican party alive in the 1930s by opposing "diehard opposition to the New Deal that would stamp the party as hopelessly reactionary". His personal friendship with Roosevelt "worked to Oregon's advantage in the Bonneville Dam project" and provided "low-cost electrical power for farmers, public utility districts, and farm co-operatives... ". It was also "instrumental in bringing aluminum and other defense industries to Oregon during the Second World War." All of this is on pp. 199–200. Some of it, at least, could probably be worked smoothly into the existing article. Finetooth ( talk) 02:07, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
I had always thought that OSU's McNary Hall, constructed in 1962 or something like that, was named after an OSU English professor by that name, but it does indeed appear that it was named after Charles McNary, per THIS. Carrite ( talk) 18:18, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
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Free photos from the US Government of the McNary Lock and Dam, located on the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington and built in 1953 are located at www.nww.usace.army.mil. Some of the free photos may include pictures of Charles L. McNary. -- Suntag ☼ 15:53, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
I've dusted the hard-to-reach places, added alt text to the images, and tweaked the layout to meet Manual of Style guidelines. The article seems comprehensive to me, although I might not be the best judge of that since this is my first serious encounter with McNary. I'd suggest a peer review (PR) as the next step before heading to FAC. I'd be happy to seek a review via the PR system. Shall I? Finetooth ( talk) 16:59, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm making a few more additions and tweaks. Just added a paragraph, citing Neal, about McNary's ability to get along with progressives, main-line Republicans, and his boyhood friend, Oswald West, a Democrat. One of the suggestions in the FAC was that a little more background be included for readers outside the U.S. Finetooth ( talk) 02:50, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Gordon B. Dodds in Oregon: A History devotes a couple of pages to McNary. Key sentences might be (1) "Republican conservatives were ascendant during the twenties, although the progressive wing of the party, led by Charles Linza McNary and Charles Sprague, gained in the following decade" and (2) "Senator McNary was the state's only national figure in these years, and his legislative impact was the most crucial area of domestic politics for Oregonians, that of natural resources." He credits McNary for the Clarke-McNary Act, which Congress passed in 1924 and "was the motivating force in making Oregon state forestry effective" as well as his sponsorship of the McNary-Haugen bill, which, though twice vetoed by Coolidge, "was an important precedent for New Deal farm legislation." Dodds says that McNary kept the Republican party alive in the 1930s by opposing "diehard opposition to the New Deal that would stamp the party as hopelessly reactionary". His personal friendship with Roosevelt "worked to Oregon's advantage in the Bonneville Dam project" and provided "low-cost electrical power for farmers, public utility districts, and farm co-operatives... ". It was also "instrumental in bringing aluminum and other defense industries to Oregon during the Second World War." All of this is on pp. 199–200. Some of it, at least, could probably be worked smoothly into the existing article. Finetooth ( talk) 02:07, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
I had always thought that OSU's McNary Hall, constructed in 1962 or something like that, was named after an OSU English professor by that name, but it does indeed appear that it was named after Charles McNary, per THIS. Carrite ( talk) 18:18, 20 April 2012 (UTC)