Word: utah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Utah Congressman Douglas R. Stringfellow, 32, supporting himself with canes and leg braces, made his way painfully into a studio at Salt Lake City's television station KSL-TV one night last week. He had come to talk about his war record...
Dangerous Decoy. Near Utah's Bear River Wildlife Refuge, where the bleak shadows of the Wasatch Mountains stretch toward Great Salt Lake, hunters could hardly shoot fast enough. Fat from a summer in the grainfields of western Canada, great flights of geese and fresh-water ducks made tempting targets (see color pages following). Bright, bobbing decoys lured the flyers down toward danger; artificial calls quacked to them as they passed; shotguns (usually 12 gauge) blasted broad patterns of destruction across the shallow reaches of the river. The miracle was that so many birds survived...
...Salt Lake City, when Attorney General E. R. Callister proposed publicly that the death sentence be abolished, the first favorable letter he received was signed: "Don Jesse Neal, Death Row, Utah State Prison...
...Select Committee of the Senate recommended the censure of Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, and thereby erected a new landmark in U.S. government. The report was carefully constructed by six shirtsleeved men in the office of Utah's Senator Arthur Vivian Watkins, a man little known in the past who should be long remembered in the future. Unanimously, firmly, unequivocally. Chairman Watkins and his five committeemen recommended that McCarthy be censured by the Senate on two counts: ¶ He had been contemptuous of, and had obstructed, the Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections, which...
Arthur Watkins of Utah is a hard man who knows how to use a gavel. Four weeks ago, he used one to discipline Joe McCarthy. And in his committee's 60-page censure report there is a hardness and a sharpness which brings to mind those early rings from the Senator's gavel...