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...tons. Under a free economy, beet sugar would not get a smell of the domestic market until demand broke all records and exceeded 8,000,000 tons. But the beet growers, chief of whom is one of the Mountain States' best connected businessmen, President Heber Jedediah Grant of the Mormon Church, are better politicians than economists. Via Senator Reed Smoot they were Washington insiders in the '20s, and via their dozen-odd Senators (most of whom double in silver) they are Washington insiders still. Their achievements: an increased tariff and a domestic quota system...
...show how fit he felt after a physical checkup, Mormon Heber Jeddy Grant, 83-year-old president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, kicked up his knees right snappily as he left St. Vincent's Hospital, Los Angeles, enthusiastically supported by his son-in-law Wallace F. Bennett and a nurse...
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...