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Most Washingtonians have never heard of Harry P. Cain. For those who have, he is little more than a footnote in the history of mid-twentieth-century America, a colorful, controversial, and unpredictab...
Today much is known about the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and brought an end to World War II. But in the 1940s, the work being done on the Manhattan Project – inc...
He was known as "Mr. Tri-Cities," the "Man from Hanford," the "Godfather of the Tri-Cities," and, occasionally, by less-flattering terms. For more than 60 years, just about everyone at Hanford and in ...
This is the little-known story of the vital roles played by federal convicts and Italian prisoners of war in supporting the U.S. war effort at Hanford and the Tri-Cities during World War II. The natio...
On July 25, 1941, Tacoma Mayor Harry P. Cain summons 31 madams to City Hall to announce that arrests will be made if the women don't shut down Tacoma's brothels immediately. Cain's lecture comes amid ...
On April 10, 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower appoints former Tacoma Mayor and U.S. Senator Harry Cain to a seat on the federal Subversive Activities Control Board, a Cold War-era committee c...