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Meanwhile his strength as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints waxed great. In 1900 he was appointed to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles which made him a sort of Mormon cardinal. Today by the rule of seniority only two men stand between him and the Presidency of the Mormon Church? President Heber J. Grant and Chief Apostle Rudger Clawson. Someday Apostle Smoot may head his church and converse privately with...
There his reception was historic but not cordial. Upon his tall soberly garbed figure descended all the old righteous rage of the East against the Latter-day Saints. Christian pastors bellowed for his expulsion from the Senate. The ancient horrors of polygamy were dragged out and paraded before the world?despite the fact that polygamy had long since ceased to be a tenet of Mormonism. Humble and meek to a fault, Senator Smoot hung on against this two-year gale of religious disapproval, worked, waited, prayed. At the feet of Aldrich and Penrose and Lodge he became an apt pupil...
...news that's fit to print" was ever a satisfactory program for Joseph Pulitzer, vivid genius of latter-day U. S. journalism. He insisted that a newspaper must be not only a compendium of affairs but also a champion of ideals; and it was that theory which made his Post-Dispatch, founded 50 years ago in St. Louis, an astonishing success...
Quaking, Trembling. Only a few years before the religious maidens landed at Boston, when England was in a state of great religious unrest, the Society of Friends came into being under the leadership of George Fox (1624-91), an itinerant preacher whose personal habits approached those of a latter-day John the Baptist. Once he walked barefoot through the streets on market day crying, "Woe to the bloody city of Lichfield...
Dorothy Gish is cast in Young Love as a tempestuous and idealistic latter-day maiden striving to assure marital congeniality by pre-nuptial experiment. In the first few lines, she and her fiancé express satisfaction with last night's trial. To make it doubly sure, they exchange partners with their unconsulted host and hostess. Miss Gish completes an affair with host, but fiancé quails before hostess. Then follow two acts of confessions, recriminations, door-slammings, to end with four-way felicity the way it should be (according to the movies). Despite such items as "I love...