Word: utah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the help of Darryl Zanuck's millions and Louis Bromfield's doubtful dramatic talent another grand American screen epic has been born. "Brigham Young--Frontiersman" deals with the Mormon migration to Utah, with hatred and persecution in the good old days. The story is told with much sympathy and technical skill, but bogs down and struggles forward as painfully as the pioneers themselves...
...states of the United States are represented among the new men, excepting Nevada, South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, South Dakota, and Wyoming. The students also come from England, France, Norway, Mexico, Argentina, Japan, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Canal Zone, Bermuda, and Hawaii...
...Simpson, Assistant Commissioner of the New York State Department of Education, as Visiting Lecturer in Education; John F. Sly, Professor of Politics, Princeton University, as Consultant in Public Administration; and Ernest E. Fuller, President of Gila Junior College, Arizona, and former Associate Professor of Education, Brigham Young University, Utah, as Lecturer in Education. All the appointments are for the current academic year. Dr. Sly and Dr. Simpson are both widely known for research, writing, or administrative work in the field of educational finance; Dr. Fuller has had wide experience in education administration and has made special studies...
...veterans in Washington is Utah's senior Senator William Henry King, who served two years in the House before 1900, was elected to the Senate in 1916, has been there ever since...
...Deal support got him re-elected in 1934. But he fought the President's Court Plan, opposed Term III. Last week, in Utah's Democratic primary. Oldster King went up against a 100% New Dealer, a former small-town lawyer, Representative Abe Murdock. When the votes were counted, Washington's King found himself deposed by a 3-to-1 landslide. Back to private life, at the age of 76, goes King, after 24 years in the Senate...