Word: utah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FAIR TRADE LAW now has been knocked out in Utah, where state supreme court ruled against General Electric Co. in suit brought to stop discount house from cut-rating G.E. appliances, declared that Fair Trade, in effect since 1937, runs counter to Utah's constitution. Other states where Fair Trade has been dropped: Nebraska, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Oregon, Virginia, Louisiana...
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Seeking the G.O.P. nomination for an unprecedented third term as governor, Utah's bumptious J. Bracken Lee was unexpectedly-and unceremoniously-trounced in last week's bitter Republican primary. So weary were Utah's Republicans of Lee that they chose instead-by a vote of 62,294 to 54,282-a newcomer to politics, egg-bald George Dewey Clyde, 58, whose only political recommendation was that, as commissioner of the Utah Water and Power Board, he campaigned hard and successfully for passage of the popular Upper Colorado River bill (TIME, Feb. 12 et ante...
Chief architect of Lee's defeat was Utah's senior Senator, Arthur V. Watkins, who has feuded with Maverick Lee because of the latter's zany antics in opposing aid for public education, the federal income tax, and the Eisenhower Administration. Watkins denounced Lee as "the most disruptive influence in the whole Republican Party." If Kingmaker Watkins is successful in smoothing the ruffled feathers of Lee's followers by November, Clyde should win handily over Democratic Nominee Lorenzo Clark Romney in nominally Republican Utah...
...give Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. foothold in Millionaire Charles Steen's mining (Mi Vida mine) and milling (Uranium Reduction Co.) empire. After year of maneuvering, Odium bought 30% interest in $8,000,000 uranium mill being built by Steen's Uranium Reduction Co. at Moab, Utah. In return for share in mill, Odium will cancel plans for his own mill near by at La Sal, Utah...