Word: heber
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Last week, many a Mormon - including, some believed, venerable President Heber Jeddy Grant - was a bit dismayed at how the Security Program had been misrepresented. Facts were that only Mormon tithepayers, and hence few indigents participate in the Program. No WPA worker could give up his job to get church aid. Although the church did get 700 projects under way - mining, agricultural, chapel-building, etc. - the Program was not an emergency relief venture. Yet the Program could be made to sound like an anti-New Dealer's sweetest dream, and was, by such journals as the American Banker...
...year and a half the Mormon Church has made desperate efforts to find jobs for its members and keep them off relief. But in Salt Lake City, 81 -year-old President Heber Jeddy Grant of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ruefully stroking his beard, last week told the press that the biggest obstacle to his security program is the willingness of Latter-day Saints to be seduced by Government checks. The No. 1 Mormon admitted that he now has to be content with urging his charges who take WPA jobs to give an honest...
...Died. Heber Manning Wells, 78, first Governor of Utah (1895-1904); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Salt Lake City. Ex-Governor Wells, son of a Mormon patriarch, helped draft Utah's State constitution, helped achieve Utah's Statehood, which had been delayed because of polygamy...
...Hamilton, Bermuda, a pair of smiling pictures of the Duke & Duchess, tacked up by a newspaper counter clerk, Miss Evelyn Stovell, and captioned "They're Happy Now,'' so enraged the Rt. Rev. Arthur Heber Browne, 73, Anglican Bishop of Bermuda, that he tore them down, stalked out. Pursued to his home by Miss Stovell, who demanded her pictures back, the Bishop of Bermuda snapped: "I did not know that those pictures were the private property of Miss Stovell. ... It is disgraceful that they should have been in such a public place...
...professorship, which will be named after Dean Pound, will be created by a fund collected by the Harvard Law Alumni Association, under the supervision of Reginald Heber Smith, secretary-treasurer of the Association...