Word: utah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week charged that U.S. distillers had deliberately planned the U.S. liquor drought in order to boost their profits. The subcommittee, headed by Ne vada's Senator Pat McCarran, and including such men as West Virginia's Harley Kilgore. Utah's Abe Murdock and Michigan's Homer Ferguson, accused the liquor industry of using its self-imposed program of rationing liquor to dealers as a scheme by which many rationed profits for themselves...
...much personal charm, Bob Hinckley has the diplomacy for his new job. Born in Fillmore, Utah, the grandson of a friend and aide of Brigham Young, he organized a successful pioneer airline, the Utah-Pacific Airways, rose swiftly from a post as an assistant administrator of the WPA to the chairmanship of the Civil Aeronautics Authority. He became Assistant Secretary of Commerce...
...Senator Harry Truman (who might help carry his Midwest border state); Speaker Sam Rayburn (who should please the South); Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd (who might attract a stray conservative vote); Senate Leader Alben Barkley, Economic Stabilizer Jimmy Byrnes, WMC Boss Paul McNutt and even such outsiders as Utah's Senator Elbert Thomas and Tennessee's Governor Prentice Cooper...
...World War I was already well under way when Sanders was born (in Salt Lake City), and less than two months before Pearl Harbor he was still a second lieutenant. These facts are all the more remarkable because he is not a West Pointer. But in the University of Utah's R.O.T.C. he was an "A" student in military science and tactics. The only civilian job he ever had was running an elevator to finance his college social activities. After graduating from the Army's flying school at Kelly Field, big (6 ft. 3 in., 200 lb.) blue...
Seven out of every too veterans will want some kind of education. That prediction was made last week by Utah's Senator Elbert Thomas at the 25th birthday party of Manhattan's New School for Social Research (TIME, Oct. 4). One problem : many veterans have already had some higher education but, unless special plans are made for them, will be unable to go on to a degree. The New School announced one kind of help: a senior college in which veterans, with underclass credits, can get A.B.s through evening courses...