Word: utah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost all of its stalwarts in the House-Washington's Hugh de Lacey, West Virginia's Matt Neeley, Michigan's Frank Hook, Pennsylvania's Mike Bradley and John Sheridan. Gone from the Senate would be such labor 100-percenters as Pennsylvania's Joe Guffey, Utah's Abe Murdock, Delaware's James Tunnell, Washington's Hugh Mitchell...
...Utah's Arthur V. Watkins, a 59-year-old, grey-haired lawyer who runs two weekly newspapers as a hobby, entered the Senate race without much hope, finished a surprise G.O.P. winner over incumbent Abe Murdock, a 100% New Dealer...
Married. Elbert Duncan Thomas, 63, Utah's scholarly, Japanese-speaking U.S. Senator (since 1932), who as chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee has been a leading proponent of Army-Navy merger; and Ethel Evans, his 44-year-old secretary; he for the second time, she for the first; in Salt Lake City...
Meanwhile full winter descended, without warning, on the Rocky Mountain states. It began snowing in Utah, Nevada and Montana, and the worst blizzard in a decade roared down on Colorado. Hunters were trapped, cars stalled, trains delayed and the intermountain sugar-beet harvest was almost completely disrupted...
...price of Republican victory in the Senate would also mean the assumption of the Naval Affairs Committee chairmanship by South Dakota's Chan Gurney. Gurney, whose record includes supporting a labor draft, crippling of the Bretton Woods Agreement, and maintaining high tariffs, would replace present chairman Elbert Thomas of Utah, an outstanding progressive...