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Show UniversIty .f Ut..h an4 In the Mormon Church. High Councilman asked if he h __nsi ••eI ,h. fIOve.morship. H. w. m,ld thet Nfil.n would be hi, $ttGftlest rival. Characteristically Thomas Nesl.n would be handicapped by having been elected A 1ft office mon CGR moke • to .me 8$ more When it out his WQS a $".,.ted that his flnally th. In fiRedly wound feJpOnded the,t 14 flQl itieQ,' .ffice up <1$ the sen.rl" nominee to some of his surprise nomln.Jon 'ong record of alflUatioR of it, oACli vete$ of Mayor C. Clarence mGAy enemi... friendl _d Neslen hod enemies who woul,d defeat him. That Thomas seemed '0 in the SQlt VI•• f,tends thGl\ to himself. wrpriae h,$ seemed hurt, pointing with the Demo,erotic 1920, when he r. ahead of hi:s ticket. This last fact, he for 1.5 Party, his activities Secretary of State, he continued, is whet gave ran on behelf S,ooo pol itioicms the ideo that he eGul,d ,arner the votes. 14 (Aside from m'y positions in the Un.iversity and my commission in the Natlono' Guard of Utah, I hw. ,fltever held 0 St.te position. I was en Gov..r Ilamberger's staff. $I ThGmas, .Jr, 193'4 w. considered fr.h timber fer political effie., comiderable number of assets, his business c«eer, his ossocic:d'ions with youth, hls Chwc:h recor. his spotless MOretl ,&Co.rd, hls parentage, his consistent support of his party, and hi,s relative $Uccess at the polls in 1920, though he foiled with at Q this time _ • eGAd ••te for Seeretary of State. 15 11. had been mentioned for Governor quite often. it WGS som.e time in August that the decision WQ$ made that my none would be presented to the con vention for the Senatorship. But one radio talk was given in a formeI way stoting why my fden. were goinS to present my Nltne. This talk WQS given by John Henry EVaN who was Q elQ$wGte of mine, but much older than j was .,0 who hod teacher in the L. 9. S. College loftg before he was graduated. There WQS no to speak of .xc.ptinS th. radio announcement and what the papers sard, At the convention Q few of my students passed out Q elrcular descriptive of my work. n That is all that was done. (September 23, 1943). been a pvblicity |
