Word: deseret
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Through its key legislative spokesman and its powerful daily Deseret News and Salt Lake Telegram (circ. 85.105), the voice of the Mormon Church made its message clear to heavily Mormon (65.5%) Utah. The message: it was high time for the legislature to enact a new Sunday closing law to replace the one declared unconstitutional in 1943. Under similar pressure from the big merchants and supermarket operators (who would have to pay union labor triple pay to stay open on Sunday), both houses of the legislature comfortably passed a bill prohibiting Sunday sale of uncooked meats, groceries, clothing, boots and shoes...
...bitter disappointment to the people," the Deseret News said forebodingly, as the state legislature tried but failed to override Clyde's veto. "It is an affront to the legislators ... it is an astonishing, unaccountable reversal of what the people expected from the Governor...
WILLIAM B. SMART DESERET "NEWS-TELEGRAM" SALT LAKE CITY...
...Hargrove), at the peak of a successful screen comeback after an emotional crackup and widely publicized alcoholic escapades; of respiratory failure, after a doctor had given him a dose of sodium amytal to quiet an emotional upset; in Hollywood. Born in Salt Lake City (where his father edited the Deseret News), Walker went off to theatrical school in New York, there met Phyllis Isley, married her, lived in artistic poverty while appearing in Greenwich Village theatricals. In 1943, both got big breaks in Hollywood-he in Bataan, she (as Jennifer Jones) in The Song of Bernadette. In 1945, after waiting...
...Stick? Pro-Phelps students recalled that the California law against the teaching of religion has never been interpreted at John Muir as a ban on such voluntary groups as the Student Christian Association, the Roman Catholic Newman Club, the Christian Science Club, and the Mormon Deseret Club. In any case, they thought Principal Turrell had no right to pursue Phelps across the street...