Word: utah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right to kill them in season (some states allow 25 such killings a day). Modern hunters use modern mass-destruction methods, such as automatic and repeating shotguns, live decoys, baited ducking grounds. Ducks die by the million from improper refuges like the Bear River marshes near Great Salt Lake, Utah, where alkali permeates the duck ponds. Chief Redington recommends more sanctuaries. Last April Congress voted $8,000,000 to buy and restore land and water preserves...
After being scored on by a long pass, Grubbs and Green of Texas Christian marched as to war against Southern Methodist. The 7-7 tie was enough to make the Christians champions of the southwest on their record. Utah's Rocky Mountaineers, winners in their conference, finished a perfect season by tumbling the Utah Aggies, 26-7. Nebraska-Big Six champions though tied by Missouri and Oklahoma-trounced eleven Iowa Statesmen made wild but not dangerous by six beatings in a row. Nebraska 31, Iowa State 12. Georgia's little bulldogs put on the snarl they wore...
When the bean schedule was reached Generalissimo Smoot and Field Marshal Simmons had an acrimonious dispute. The Field Marshal, red in the face, waved his arms and cried: "The Senator from Utah knows nothing about beans!" Glaring down scornfully upon his opponent across the aisle, the Generalissimo snarled back: "Beans! Beans! We grow better beans in Utah than they do in North Carolina?or anywhere else in the world...
...obtained Nebraska as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Scouts Lewis, Clark, Pike, Fremont explored it. By early pioneers it was called a "great desert entirely unfit for agriculture." Across it were laid the Oregon trail, the Mormon trail to Utah, the "Pony Express" route, the Union Pacific Railroad. The Diamond Jubilee celebrated not Nebraska's 75th year as a State, but its 75th as a political unit. In 1854, by the "Kansas-Nebraska Bill" it became a territory, was permitted to decide its slavery status by "squatter sovereignty" (vote of the settlers). It sent troops...
...with Germany. So were the U. S. Churches. Paul Jones, socialist, pacifist, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Utah, did not believe in war and said so. A commission of the House of Bishops found him guilty of "promulgating unpatriotic doctrines," of being affiliated with questionably loyal organizations. They asked for his resignation and got it. Came the Armistice. The U. S. and its churches were no longer at war with Germany. But Bishop Paul Jones was still a bishop without a diocese. He became one of the secretaries of the pacifist, interdenominational Fellowship of Reconciliation in Manhattan...