Word: derne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Utah's Dern: "Logical . . . but is it practical...
...swung sledges last week to drive a spike into a railroad tie under the Continental Divide west of Denver. The spike was a golden one and the two laborers made speeches. Mayor John F. Bowman of Salt Lake City made a speech, representing Governor George H. Dern of Utah. Then 2,500 people, on four special trains, rode forth and back through the six-mile Moffat tunnel thus formally opened. The tunnel connects Denver and the "near West" with the vast, enormously rich western part of Colorado, southern Wyoming, eastern Utah...
Governor William H. Adams of Colorado, R. C. Dillon of New Mexico, George H. Dern of Utah and Frank C. Emerson of Wyoming interviewed the Arizona and California groups separately, then prepared a compromise. But again the two neighbor states disagreed, California refusing to accept the arbitrators' figures on Arizona's present vested rights...
Meantime, the New York World and other newspapers tried, by featuring the hunts in large headlines, to spur some humane or public-spirited person of wealth to preserve the finest-herd of wild buffalo left in the country. Since the hunts were first announced some months ago, Governor Dern of Utah had received protests from Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, Mayor Nichols of Boston, the American Humane Society; but could only reply, "Antelope Island and the buffalo herd are privately owned...
...Honeymoon. Most of the dialogue is divided between baby talk and the rasping argot of the underworld. Most of the interest is divided between a pair of pajamas and a package of stolen bonds. What comedy there is rests with a "dern it" constable and the illness of the hero on smoking his first cigar. Of the group, the pajamas are the most satisfactory...