Word: utah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hoping, as so many others then did, to find a new life in America. He becomes a hobo, a songwriter, an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World. In 1915, as Joe Hill, convicted murderer, he is executed by a firing squad at the federal penitentiary in Utah. His final instructions to his trade union supporters: "Don't mourn! Organize...
...begun as a practical matter. Because of the great number of women and small number of men during the early days of the church's restoration, the pioneer Mormon men took several wives so all women would have a chance to marry. This practice was discontinued before Utah became a state...
...Long hair has increasingly been caught up in the machinery of justice, and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, for one, has had enough of it. Faced with three cases that opposed hair-length regulations for public school boys in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, the court said: "We are convinced that the United States Constitution and statutes do not impose on the federal courts the duty and responsibility of supervising the length of a student's hair." Neither free-speech rights nor any other of the variety of claims asserted impressed the court. Rather, the judges felt that...
...Mormon rams of Brigham Young's polygamous persuasion still exist, but they do not roar; they whisper. Scattered across every county in Utah, most numerous in the Salt Lake Valley, live perhaps 20,000 men, women and children who still take literally Young's solemn litany: "The only men who become Gods, even the sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy." They keep their private lives extremely private, for polygamy is illegal in Utah, as in every other state, and was outlawed by the Church of Jesus
RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT. For most women, however, obstacles are still abundant. Thirty-three states retain century-old laws making abortion a crime unless performed to save the life or, in a few instances, protect the health of the pregnant woman. In Utah, some lawyers interpret the law to hold that it may even be a crime to help a woman obtain an abortion elsewhere. Abortions are all but impossible to obtain in such states as New Jersey, Iowa and the Dakotas, difficult at best in Massachusetts, much of the South and Middle West. Women in Idaho, which...