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Born on a Nebraska farm, George Dern went to the University of Nebraska, played on its championship football team, once had his pants torn completely off in a tackle. Migrating to Utah, he got a job as bookkeeper with a gold mine, learned engineering, helped to invent the Holt-Dern ore roaster. A moneymaker, he bought into banks, power companies, canneries, is today one of Utah's wealthier citizens. As a progressive Democrat, he was elected Governor in 1924, re-elected in 1928. A Congregationalist, he gets on well with the Mormons. His favorite parlor game is "Murder." Once...
...this new building the Advocate will occupy the second and third stories, while the Dunster House Book Shop, now located at 20 South Street, will use the street floor for its store, since the structure it now occupies is to be torn down to make way for a new building to be erected by the University as an extension to Kirkland House. It is understood that plans for this extension, which will connect two wings of Kirkland House, have already been completed and that construction will begin soon. The University bought the land on which the Dunster House Book Shop...
...Rogers Building, a former gymnasium, was torn down about a week ago. Excavations for the new building were begun at once and are expected to be finished about a week from now, if the present favorable conditions persist. When the excavations have been completed the actual construction work will begin and probably will be done in eight or nine months. No difficulties with strikers or communist agitators are expected because of the present economic conditions...
...Chamber voted 400 to 181 to sit all night and began to vote sections of the budget, voted 65 of the 150 sections. Suddenly up popped an item of 5% reduction in the pay of civil servants. Socialist objections touched off pandemonium. "My heart is torn," cried stringy-haired Socialist Blum, "but I am unable to vote with my friends!" In an incoherent scramble all sorts of Deputies, eager to curry favor with civil service constituents, followed the Socialist bolt. The Paul-Boncour Cabinet fell at 6 a. m. by a vote of 193 to 390, "guillotined at dawn" like...
...Gretna Green and marriage they are too tired, too busy with their reminiscent thoughts, to say much to each other, but this time they are sure it will be a go. Whether such a laudable transmogrification is possible or not, Authoress James succeeds in making her twp love-torn victims likely winners, their hard-won happy ending almost as plausible as praiseworthy...