Word: utah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dave Sark, Local 726's president, was running the show and he knew how to keep it jumping with fun and sightseeing. There was a stop at Colorado Springs and another for a look at the Royal Gorge and there was a bus trip into the mountains in Utah and swimming in the Great Salt Lake ("you float in that water"). Out of Salt Lake City, Sam Conino got a telegram; his wife had her baby O.K. The boys of Sam's local were all traveling without their wives and itching for a real party, and that...
Thank you very much for your article on "Utah, A Peculiar People" (TIME, July 21). I found the article very interesting and quite fair to the Mormon Church...
...Denham might find it hard to get along with some of his board members. One of the new appointees was Utah's ex-Senator Abe Murdock, a down-the-line New Dealer to whom three G.O.P. committeemen strongly objected. The other was New York's J. Copeland Gray, a liberal Republican and up-the-ladder veteran of the Wage Stabilization Board and the Regional War Labor Board. The committee vote on him: 9-to-3. Gray's proudest boast: in 17 years as labor expert for Houdaille-Hershey's Buffalo subsidiaries (shock absorbers and firearms...
...Salt Lake and had dismissed it with "Give me the pool at our house in Albany any time." During the Governors' Conference in Salt Lake City, he had signed autographs with a patient smile. Politicking had been more fun. He had sidled around the lobby of the Hotel Utah, spotting governors by their name badges and surreptitiously reading the name. Then he marched up and offered his hand with a hearty: "How do you do, Governor So-&-So, I'm Tom Dewey. It's a pleasure to meet...
John had yet to develop such poise. Once John became so fascinated with the Utah scenery that he borrowed three rolls of film from a news photographer, ran them through his Brownie. When the photographer refused to lend him any more, John let go a disappointed yell. The Governor had to restore order...