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...thought he knew a good man when he saw one; but even he did not realize that he had assembled "the most significant group of continental explorers ever brought together." The man who became the group's most outstanding graduate was a 24-year-old New Yorker named Jedediah Strong Smith, an ex-clerk on a Great Lakes freighter who had come to town in time to spot Ashley's ad. Three years later, when beaver-rich General Ashley retired from the field and sold his interests to Trapper Smith and two other lieutenants, they lost no time...
...Commencement Day considerably. Music, dancing, and the booths on the Common disappeared, and at the same time the actual exercises became less stiff. The one Latin, two Greek, and two Hebrew disputations gradually gave way to orations in English, the first of which was given in 1763 by Jedediah Huntington, a future Revolutionary War general...
Died. Heber Jedediah Grant, 88, seventh President and Prophet of the Church of the Latter-day Saints (Mormons) since his succession (by seniority) in 1918, also its 33rd Apostle, and one of Utah's shrewdest, most successful insurance men and bankers; in Salt Lake City. Only son of the fifth wife of Salt Lake City's first mayor, Grant organized his first insurance company with $45 capital, preached his religion from England to Japan, outlived two of the three wives he married before the Church outlawed polygamy...
...Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons) takes itself very seriously as an international organization-though all but 70,000 of its 892,000 members live in the U.S. And to Mormons the utterances of their First Presidency (President Heber Jedediah Grant and his two counselors) are a divinely inspired part of the continuous revelations of God. These two facts last week produced a First Presidency message to the semiannual Mormon conference at Salt Lake City whose impartial stand on the war closely resembled the attitude of the Pope...
...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...