Word: utah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governors of California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming govern almost one-tenth of all North America, more than one-quarter of the continental U. S. As to rainfall, theirs is the dryest quarter. They were an important group of political potentates when they all came together last week at Denver...
...Tooele, Utah...
...Utah Deer. Hunters and fishermen will do well to trek to Utah this autumn. For them, David H. Madsen, State Fish and Game Commissioner, has announced a para dise: "More deer than any white man ever saw in the State . . . 30, 000 to 40,000 pheasants in Salt Lake and Utah counties this fall... the largest fish producing plant in the United States." Utah has public shooting grounds of 12,000 acres with accommodations for 1,000 sportsmen...
...special session to consider flood relief. This idea apparently did not,appeal to the President and inasmuch as only the President could put it into effect, prospects for a special session seemed remote. Last week Senators Smoot and Harrison (see TAXATION) joined in a special session call, but the Utah senator seemed primarily and the Mississippi senator considerably interested in the matter of tax reduction rather than in the matter of flood relief. With Mr. Coolidge, as far as is known, still opposed to a special session, it did not seem likely that Congress would meet before its regular time...
Last week Senator Reed Smoot of Utah read Herber C. Hoover's report on flood conditions (see catastrophe) ; came to the conclusion that a special Congressional session, not later than Nov. 1, was "absolutely necessary if flood sufferers are to obtain prompt and adequate relief." It was recalled that Senator Smoot has been urging a special session for more than a month; that he is Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; that even after perusal of the Hoover report he put the passage of the Deficiency BUI (filibustered out at the last session of Congress) as the first duty...