Word: utah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Owen Brewster, chairman of the Senate Republican campaign committee: Republicans are certain to pick up Senate seats now held by Democrats in Pennsylvania, Idaho and California, plus one of the two at stake in Connecticut. Republicans may even capture Utah, Illinois, New York, Oklahoma, Maryland, Nevada and Washington, and the other seat in Connecticut...
When he lunched at the Pearl Harbor Officers' Club-after a cruise in a picket boat past the rusting hulks of the battleship Arizona* and the target ship Utah-he spoke with great seriousness of his hope for world peace. At the Army's Tripler General Hospital, where he made a surprise visit to men wounded in the Korean war, his usual geniality returned. He joked with a soldier who had lost an eye: Well, the President said, you can be a banker and use your glass eye to show sympathy to people who want loans...
...Utah, by a 4-to-1 majority, Republicans picked Wallace F. Bennett, a small business (paint & glass) man who once headed the National Association of Manufacturers, to run against the Democrats' scholarly Senator Elbert D. Thomas. Fair Dealer Thomas, who had never paid much attention to his local political fences, seemed to be in real trouble this time, facing his stiffest fight in years...
...this case no one could ask for a more impartial board: Justice Roger I. Mc-Donough of the Utah Supreme Court, former Indiana Supreme Court Justice Mart J. O'Mally, and Gordon S. Watkins, provost of California's Riverside College. Their compromise solution: cut yard hours to 40, raise wages 18?; but no change for men working on the roads. Management accepted-but the unions disdainfully refused, and eagerly suggested that the Government take over the yards...
...Provo, Utah, which gives new teachers time off to visit other schools and classrooms, assigns each newcomer an experienced instructor as helper and guide through the first year...