{"id":10462,"date":"2009-12-08T15:01:31","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T20:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=10462"},"modified":"2009-12-08T15:07:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T20:07:42","slug":"bizarro-world-meets-utah-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/bizarro-world-meets-utah-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Bizarro World Meets Utah County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10465\" title=\"Reed E. Vetterli\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Reed-E.-Vetterli2.jpg\" alt=\"Reed E. Vetterli\" width=\"134\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Reed-E.-Vetterli2.jpg 259w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Reed-E.-Vetterli2-162x300.jpg 162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Utah County today&#8217;s residents would hardly recognize:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A onetime famed FBIman, Reed Ernest Vetterli, whose career could yield a dozen detective yarns, is in the middle of his hardest case: trying to get elected to Congress as a Republican in Utah&#8217;s heavily New Deal Second District. His platform: support the President in the war; get new blood into Congress&#8230;. Republican Vetterli, with State G.O.P. backing, practically has the nomination in his pocket; so has the Democratic incumbent, stocky, stodgy J. Will Robinson of Provo. But G.O.P. chances in the election are\u2014according to the recent past\u2014slim: many a former WPA worker has moved to the Second District for war work to strengthen the strong Democratic forces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"%20Read%20more:%20http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,773403,00.html#ixzz0Z7zwmtOQ\">&#8220;Utah&#8217;s Vetterli,&#8221; <em>Time Magazine<\/em>, August 10, 1942<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vetterli later ran for Governor of Utah on the Republican ticket where Utah County again proved problematic. &#8220;In Utah County we are much concerned about the nominee for Governor.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=336&amp;dat=19440621&amp;id=jaIKAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=lE0DAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=4080,5134900\"><em>Deseret News<\/em>, June 21, 1944<\/a>). (Hat Tip: Sheldon)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Utah County today&#8217;s residents would hardly recognize: A onetime famed FBIman, Reed Ernest Vetterli, whose career could yield a dozen detective yarns, is in the middle of his hardest case: trying to get elected to Congress as a Republican in Utah&#8217;s heavily New Deal Second District. His platform: support the President in the war; get new blood into Congress&#8230;. Republican Vetterli, with State G.O.P. backing, practically has the nomination in his pocket; so has the Democratic incumbent, stocky, stodgy J. Will Robinson of Provo. But G.O.P. chances in the election are\u2014according to the recent past\u2014slim: many a former WPA worker has moved to the Second District for war work to strengthen the strong Democratic forces. &#8220;Utah&#8217;s Vetterli,&#8221; Time Magazine, August 10, 1942 Vetterli later ran for Governor of Utah on the Republican ticket where Utah County again proved problematic. &#8220;In Utah County we are much concerned about the nominee for Governor.&#8221; (Deseret News, June 21, 1944). (Hat Tip: Sheldon)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":10463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,55],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-10462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corn","category-news-politics","tag-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Reed-E.-Vetterli.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10475,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions\/10475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}