Word: brigham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business meeting will open the session on Friday after which Dr. Carl Brigham and Dr. John A. Lefter will discuss "Recent Progress in School and College Relations." That evening, Professor Coolidge will give a resume of the accomplishments of the House Plan; he will be followed by Dean Hanford, who will talk on "Recent Developments in College Education and Its Effect on the Relation between School and College...
Marriner Stoddard Eccles grew up in Logan, Utah, a rich & pious Mormon- grandson of a covered-wagon pioneer, son of a lumber-banking-utilities tycoon. At 19, graduated from Brigham Young College, he went as a missionary to Scotland. He came home, put his capital with the capital of Browning-firearms heirs to start the First Security system which operated 28 banks (now consolidated into twelve) in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming. He became vice president and treasurer of Amalgamated Sugar Co. and headed a construction company which got a big job out of Hoover Dam.* Last week, aged 43, Marriner Eccles...
...School in 1913, saw active service in the Medical Corps during the war, and was director of surgery at the Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland from 1924 to 1932. Since 1932 he has been a professor of surgery at the Medical School, and surgeon-in-chief at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He was also a member of the Board of Overseers from...
...PROSELYTE-Susan Ertz-Appleton-Century ($2.50). Historical novel about the Mormons, in pre-Smoot, Brigham Young days...
...Died. Brigham Henry Roberts, 76, president of the First Council of Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon); of diabetes complications; in Salt Lake City. Elected to Congress in 1898, he was refused a seat by a 5-to-1 House vote because he was an avowed polygamist...