Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey arrived in Salt Lake City for the governors' convention this week, he was as self-assured as ever. His backers figured that he had 393 sure convention votes of the 547 needed for nomination. Western Republicans were already warning California's Governor Earl Warren that unless he got off the fence soon, western delegates would swing to Dewey. And Dewey men confidently cited the political dogma that, the more Democratic opposition stiffened, the more professional GOPsters would turn to Tom Dewey as the one man who could carry the Republicans into office. They were confident that...
Mormons today do not expect divine intervention in this sinful world before they have exhausted their own final resources. And 100 years after the Mormons' perilous trek to Utah's Great Salt Lake, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is far from being exhausted. In its self-made oasis on the Western desert, it is flourishing like a green bay tree...
...Holy City. Mountain-rimmed Salt Lake City (pop. 183,000) is no longer a fortress and a prison. Last week the town which Brigham Young laid out "foursquare with the compass" with wide streets and ten-acre blocks, was a center of Western commerce and trade, hub of three railroads, four airlines, four main highways. It is one of the cleanest and friendliest cities in the U.S., and one of the healthiest. The descendants of the lean and desperate Mormon pioneers have a well-fed, well-dressed, freshly scrubbed and glowing look. Mormon women walk with a high-bosomed...
Secretary Marshall told the Governors' Conference at Salt Lake City last night that the United States must increase its economic aid to Europe or else see a decline of democracy. At the same time in Washington Harold E. Stassen asked America not to "abandon" the eight small states remaining aloof from the Paris conference at Russia's instigation...
...family in Sapulpa, Okla., his mother in Owosso, Mich, and to show his sons some of the grandeur of the West. Actually, as eleven reporters traveling with him knew, it was a chance to confer with dozens of G.O.P. national committeemen, make news at the Governors' Conference in Salt Lake City, and line up Dewey delegates for the Philadelphia convention next June. Tom Dewey at last was out in the open...