Word: utah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...KIMBALL Ogden, Utah...
...Salt Lake City Willkie made a minor boner. Newsmen, with Utah mining and cattlemen in mind, asked Willkie his position on high tariffs. Said Wendell Willkie: obviously, he was against them. Then he added: "Asking me that is like asking me if I favor sin." Around high-tariff-minded, sin-conscious Utah went word that Willkie thought all tariffs and sin synonymous...
Democrat Abe Murdock of Utah thrust like a shark at this vulnerable opening. "I know it is the prayer in his heart, and it is the prayer in the heart of every other good, old, stand-pat Republican in the United States today . . . that Franklin D. Roosevelt would eliminate himself from politics and give them at least a shadow of a chance to bring in the Grand Old Party again. But I say to them . . . the American people still want Roosevelt...
...Utah's Senator Elbert Duncan Thomas: he fought throughout the year for a billion-dollar veterans' re-education program for improved child-care services, and after a decade of effort got a proxime accessit for a U.S. appropriation to help state schools (TIME, March...
...schooling was interrupted after the eighth grade. To help support the family Cas had to go to work. He caddied, sold papers and worked in a pottery and a steel foundry. One year he spent in a Utah CCC camp. Only after three years could Cas start high school...