Word: utah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About one comfortable trolley-load of happy, willing politicians shook hands and slapped one another's backs, one day last week in the lobby of the Bigelow Hotel of Ogden, Utah. Far westerners to man, Democrats all, they had been invited there by Joseph Chez, Ogden lawyer, and Fred W. Johnson, lawyer from Rock Springs, Wyo. There was a knowing look in their eyes as they discussed the prime purpose of their meeting? to "consider" who was the "most available" candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination next year. They named no names until all had assembled for formal business...
...defend Judge Greenwood in the ensuing debate, now arose National Democratic Committeeman James H. Moyle of Utah, a bulky, bearded, monogamous* Mormon, who declared that he had come prepared to discuss principles, not politicians. "You men do not represent Western sentiment," he frowned. "Why mislead the East that there is a great movement being launched in the West when you men know you only want him for a candidate because you like...
Said A. W. Ewing, a Utah delegate: "If Al Smith is nominated, religion will cut no figure in Utah. I assure you that the Mormons as a whole are overwhelmingly Democratic. There are very few gentiles in the Democratic party
...Governors of Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico and their host, the Governor of Colorado, had little left to settle. Their states are in the upper basin of the Colorado River, "upper" meaning "up-stream," for the Colorado flows roughly southwest. Prior negotiations at Santa Fe, N. M., in 1922, had established the principle that, when the Colorado's torrent is entirely turned to human use, 50% of its volume will go to the upper basin states, 50% to the lower basin states. The four upper basin states then agreed on proportional allotments of their 50% among themselves. The lower basin...
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...