Word: brigham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Utah, President Franklin S. Harris of Brigham Young University won the Republican designation to tackle Senator Elbert D. Thomas, unopposed New Dealer...
...Wilmington. N. C. (pop. 32,270), a downtown building recently occupied by an undertaker's parlor was undergoing a cheerful change. Carpenters and painters were remodeling it into studios, workshops and an art gallery. In Salt Lake City, Utah (pop. 140,267), the old Elks Club building near Brigham Young's Theatre had by last week undergone a similar transformation. In Spokane, Wash. (pop. 115,514), a downtown store building, rebuilt into galleries, studios and work rooms, was preparing for its first art show. For these cities the appearance of Art in the business district was absolutely unprecedented...
Kallie Foutz (rhymes with snouts) of Salt Lake City, great-granddaughter of the late much-married (approximately 25 wives) Mormon Brigham Young, recently won a Make-the-Most-of-Yourself contest sponsored by the fashion magazine, Mademoiselle. Like her competitors, 5,000 other plain young women, she submitted pictures, composed a 500-word essay on ''Why I Should Be Chosen To Be Made Over." Long of nose, mousy of hair, skinny of figure, Miss Foutz won with a frank letter showing no self-pity, frank pictures indicating need of makeover (see cut). Last week she went to Manhattan...
...Clifford E. Clinton, boyish owner of the "World's Largest Cafeteria" in downtown Los Angeles, customers brought so many tales of civic vice and dishonesty that last year he set up shop as a political reformer. With a few aroused sympathizers he hired a hard-boiled lawyer, Arthur Brigham Rose. Lawyer Rose hired an equally hard-boiled private investigator, Harry Raymond, onetime Los Angeles patrolman and later Police Chief of San Diego. By last week, Clifford Clinton and his cafeteria reform party had managed to stir up the biggest Los Angeles political stench in a decade...
John L. Lewis, an Oklahoma City dentist, is running for Congress. Patrick Henry, a Rush Springs cowboy, and Joe Miller, an Elk City farmer, are running for State Auditor. Others: Joe E. Brown, school superintendent in Dustin, for Secretary of State; Robert Burns, Oklahoma City lawyer, for Lieutenant Governor; Brigham Young, Oklahoma City engineer, and Wilbur Wright, Muskogee painter, for Congress; Daniel Boone, McAlester barber, and Huey Long, Oklahoma City businessman, for clerk of the Supreme Court...