Word: utah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus the great Negro fighter Henry Armstrong saluted the ability of Keith Nuttall, a boxer of Brigham City, Utah, who is just 13 years old. Last week, as usual, blond, handsomely babyfaced, mild-mannered young Keith was appearing in exhibition bouts in his home neighborhood. He was fast, brilliant in his footwork, a cunning boxer, and punched so hard that he had to have his hands taped. He has been fighting for two years now-two or three bouts nearly every week...
...George, Utah...
...should be tolerant when conversing with Bostonians, particularly if you hail from the Great Plains or beyond. If you find a native who has been west of Pittsburg, you will have to explain carefully that Los Angeles is a few hundred miles the other side of Chicago and that Utah and Idaho and Nevada are not allied nations. You will have to demonstrate patiently that illiteracy is not on the increase in your home state, that your college has a library and a few qualified professors, that the Pony Express is not the only available means of communication...
...week FBI agents broke into a house in Salt Lake City, carted seven people off to jail for living as man and wives. Similar posses in other cities swiftly followed suit. By nightfall State and Federal police had dragged from bedroom & parlor, and jailed 50 men and women in Utah, Idaho, Arizona. It was the biggest raid on polygamists since the orthodox Mormon Church officially outlawed plural marriage...
Willkie had perhaps split the Utah delegation; friendly Washington is still uncertain. In Portland, he announced his entrance into the Oregon primary. The most significant result might follow his luncheon with California's Governor Earl Warren, the most potent Western GOPolitico. If Wendell Willkie could snare Earl Warren's support, the whole West might fall into his hands...