Word: roasters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nebraska farm, George Dern went to the University of Nebraska, played on its championship football team, once had his pants torn completely off in a tackle. Migrating to Utah, he got a job as bookkeeper with a gold mine, learned engineering, helped to invent the Holt-Dern ore roaster. A moneymaker, he bought into banks, power companies, canneries, is today one of Utah's wealthier citizens. As a progressive Democrat, he was elected Governor in 1924, re-elected in 1928. A Congregationalist, he gets on well with the Mormons. His favorite parlor game is "Murder." Once when...