Word: latters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Latter Day Saints...
...destroyer Paulding, which gored the S-4 and whose commander the court also criticized, Secretary Wilbur did not refer explicitly. He admitted that submarines have to look out for surface vessels, insisting only that the latter should be careful. So there, apparently, rested the controversy between the Navy and the Treasury Department, in whose rum-chasing service the Paulding was functioning at the crash. And there, unless Congress or the President reopens the subject, ended the S-4 disaster-except as a legend in the Navy, a leaden memory in line of duty...
Catholics gained most (183,889). Methodists, of 20 sorts, were second with a gain of 150,910. The order of increase in other denominations: Lutherans, Disciples of Christ, Baptists, Latter Day Saints, Oriental Catholics, Dunkards, United Brethren, Adventists. Presbyterians and Quakers lost more members than they gained...
Both Chairman, 62, and President, 54, come regularly to work in Manhattan; the former from Montclair, N. J.; the latter from a vast estate at Valhalla (Westchester county, N. Y.). President Hartford's Valhalla is no meeting place of brawny heroes or great and faithful warriors; it is a place of shadowy woods, where a man may be alone with dog and horse...
Timely writing is seldom scholarly writing, and indeed these books lay no claim to the latter title. Written, one by the political authority of the eminent Baltimore Sun, the other by a Princeton professor, both books will be chiefly of lay interest. Both authors are well-informed, authoritive, and unbiased. Scholars will detect occasional minor flaws, but will be impressed with the shrewdness of interpretations given to party platforms, campaign pledges, election results...