Hatch, George C. (See also Bxs 85-87), 1944-1953

File — Box: 29, Folder: 11-20

Identifier: II

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

September 5, 1944-October 31, 1946--Correspondence between Hinckley and Hatch regarding radio stations in the Intermountain Network.
October 4, 1946--To Hinckley, American Broadcasting Company, from Hatch telling of the political campaign for Granger and Murdock.
February 4-April 26, 1947--Correspondence relating to American Broadcasting Company affiliation with other radio stations.
March 17, 1947--Hinckley to Abe Glasmann stating firmly his position in regard to the radio station in Honolulu.
May-July 1947--Business correspondence with American Broadcasting Company, Intermountain Network, Inc., Salt Lake Broadcasting Company, and Pacific Frontier Broadcasting Company, Ltd.
September 17, 23, 1948--President Harry S. Truman's visit to Salt Lake City covered in two letters to Hinckley. The president was enthusiastically received in Heber, Price, Provo, and Salt Lake City.
November 4, 1948--Hatch reports the "election victory as perfect as anyone could have hoped for."
January 10, 1949--Letters to Hinckley and Senator Elbert D. Thomas from Hatch recommending Willis Ritter to the federal judgeship.
August 2, 1949--Hinckley is "touching all bases on Ritter" in Washington including the Justice Department investigation.
October 15, 1949--Hatch writes Hinckley of the progress on J. Willis Ritter for federal judge. He is supported by the Utah State Democratic Committee, all three Democratic Members Congressional Delegation, majority of the Executive Committee of the Utah State Bar Association, and the Salt Lake and Weber counties Bar Associations. He reports Republicans are shocked at Arthur V. Watkins's "mud slinging."
October 18, 1949--Hinckley to Hatch states that Senator Elbert D. "Thomas does not believe that the Church is back of this drive against Ritter." Hinckley feels that Arthur V. Watkins and Grant Ivins's opposition to Ritter will make the appointment very difficult.
October 18, November 19, 1951--Letters to Hatch from George S. Eccles extolling the United Business Committee of the National Association of Manufacturers as the best possible opportunity of exposing and halting Socialism in America, and one letter asking for contributions for the National Association of Manufacturers to meet the challenge.
November 15, 1951--Democratic party politics in Utah, Hatch describing to Hinckley what is being done in the state.
March 18, 1952-July 14, 1953--Correspondence on Utah politics and radio.

Dates

1944-1953

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