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Through the years the Mormon missionaries have roamed the earth, proselytizing Orientals and all other races-except Negroes. Yet, remarkably, a few Negroes are active Mormons, and all Mormons believe that Negroes will ultimately cleanse themselves of their curse and attain equal status with the other latter-day saints. "It's sure to be," said a Mormon in Salt Lake City last week, "but the question is when." He recalled the proclamation of President Wilford Woodruff in 1890 abolishing polygamy-soon after Congress and the Supreme Court had outlawed the practice, and in good time to ensure Utah...
Power & Trappings. McCormack is the first Roman Catholic to attain the speakership; one of the futile arguments mentioned by the anti-McCormack press was that with one Catholic in the White House and another, Mike Mansfield, leading the Senate Democrats, it would be asking too much of non-Catholics to elevate a third to the speakership. At 70, McCormack is the second-oldest man to win election (the oldest: Illinois' Henry Rainey, who was 72 when elected Speaker in 1933). He is the third Northern Democrat to become Speaker in this century. The seventh Bay Stater to lead...
...recent times we have been granting aid which has the purpose of helping countries to attain and maintain their independence. At what point in either ineffectiveness or illiberalism does that assistance cease to be justified? Let me be very clear that there is such a point. There could be no greater error of calculation than to imagine that the U.S. will try to save all comers from Communism, however feeble their own efforts, however maladroit their administration, or however despotic their internal politics. Governments can be so bad either in motive or performance or a combination of the two that...
Winthrop residents contributed the highest average gift, $8.10 per person, while $7.25 was the overall College average. Leverett, Kirkland, and Eliot led in the House totals, and the response of Lowell has improved so that it will now probably attain its goal...
Thus, it is possible to attain desirable elements of urban life outside the central city without any of the disadvantages of the city...