Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ultimately make him Prime Minister. David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, two much disgruntled Government outsiders, were already openly Eden's backers this week. That afternoon, Mr. Lloyd George took bows and cheers as he entered the House of Commons just ahead of Mr. Eden and the latter's faithful Foreign Office henchman, Lord Cranborne, who had announced he was resigning, too. Then the Prime Minister entered, got 1½ minutes' cheering from Conservatives, while Laborites booed...
Across the U. S., from Vermont to Utah, stretches a chain of 80-odd monuments, testimony of the rise of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the East, and its long trek westward a century ago in search of religious and economic freedom. A notable marker is the one on the hill east of Salt Lake City where Brigham Young first gazed over the Salt Lake Valley, exclaimed: 'This is the place!" This small stone, it was announced last week, is to be replaced next year by a monument more fitting to the great occasion...
...merely preoccupied with its past, the eminently practical Latter-Day Saints Church last week was planning solidly for its future. Before the Federal Communications Commission was an application for a Mormon short-wave radio station, to be built on the flat terrain, favorable for transmission, near the Great Salt Lake...
Last week Alton, Ill., famed as the home of Giant Robert Wadlow, was publicized as the theatre of operations of a latter-day Carry Nation, a Mrs. Irene Kite, 32. Last December Mrs. Kite got an ax, went to seven taverns in Alton & environs, grimly reduced their slot machines to broken metal. Last fortnight, with her ax she demolished two more-as she called them-"one-armed bandits.'' Charged with malicious destruction of property, Mrs. Kite was arrested, jailed because she declined to sign a bond...
...shown by their performance during the latter half of the Dartmouth Freshman game last Saturday, the 1941 hoopsters have improved noticeably since their start of the season. They will be aiming for their sixth victory against the prep school...