Word: utah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California gubernatorial campaign, said that the President and Adams "should carefully weigh as to whether Adams has so hurt his usefulness that it might be harmful." New Jersey's Robert Kean, Arizona's Barry Goldwater and Michigan's Charles Potter pounded the same drum: dump Sherman. Utah's venerable (72) Senator Arthur Watkins was the strongest voice of all. "In the light of the record as measured by the high standards of ethics set by both the President and Mr. Adams," said he, "there seems to be no other possible conclusion than that Mr. Adams...
...variety-store chain (2,121 stores in the U.S., Canada and Cuba), was named president, succeeding James T. Leftwich, 69, who remains as chairman. Bob Kirkwood had decided on a career in pharmacy after high school, was lured away from a drugstore in his home town of Provo, Utah, by the glowing picture of dime-store opportunity painted by a local Woolworth manager. He started as a window trimmer, became a store manager in Denver at 20, soon proved to have the proper mixture for success: administrative talent with the ability to get along with people. He bossed stores...
Reversed Charge. In Draper, Utah, the state prison received a long-distance telephone call from Escapee George Stone, who said he had called "just to see how things...
...Alan Ladd and his winsome, talented eleven-year-old son David). The boy saw his mother killed by Sherman's troops and was literally struck dumb at the sight. He and his father are wandering northward through what the script calls Illinois-actually a spectacular piece of Utah scenery-looking for a doctor who can restore the boy's speech, when they run into a not-too-old maid (Olivia de Havilland) who has the right prescription : love...
...mills to property taxes, lost badly after a campaign that degenerated into a dogfight between pressure groups, with teachers opposing the Chamber of Commerce and citizens' committees. Observers felt that the recession weighed only lightly in the defeat. Out of several such leeway referendums in Utah this year, only one has succeeded; yet all bond issues for new school buildings have passed. The difference: much of the leeway money would go to across-the-board teachers' pay raises. A study on merit pay has poked along for four years, but teachers have been consistently cool to the idea...