Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every schoolboy knows that the Mormons (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) used to practice "celestial marriage," better known as polygamy. Last summer sombre Idaho Novelist Vardis Fisher, no Mormon himself though of pioneer Mormon stock, won the $7,500 Harper Prize Novel Contest with Children of God, a 769-page epic of Mormons and their two famed leaders, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Author Fisher told in lusty detail of Prophet Smith's plural marriages before his lynching by a mob at Carthage, Ill., in 1844. To Reorganized Mormons, who believe that Joseph Smith neither...
...none of Joseph Smith's children followed Young or was ever a polygamist. The Mormons who stayed in the Middle West set up the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at Independence, Mo., chose Founder Smith's son Joseph as their president. When he died, he was in turn succeeded by his son, Frederick Madison Smith. The Reorganized Mormons claim that Young's attribution of polygamy to Joseph Smith was a base libel. Emma Hale, say they, was the prophet's first and only wife, even though the Dictionary of American Biography credits...
Freedom of speech will not be the point under argument, as was the case in the proceedings of Mrs. Jean Kay against City College of New York, when the latter based an unsuccessful defense of its Russell appointment on the assertion that Russell should be permitted to expound his moral views from a lecture platform...
...super-patriotic news reel--both entertaining after a fashion--had been shown. Through the doors poured dual streams of middle-aged Cambridge matrons, Mutt-and--Jeff pairs of Radcliffe girls, a sprinkling of Brattle Street subdebs, some dapper, be-mustached French instructors, and a handful of Harvard men. The latter seemed like some of Thurber's male animals in a war between the sexes. In the lobby the matrons were efficiently shunted past a line of tables where the essentials for knitting woollies for les types were hawked by enthusiastic sales-ladies. Also on sale were what appeared...
...latter case," Professor Cross states, "the United States, as the wealthiest and most prosperous modern nation, will be faced by problems of national defense of which the solution in the long run will be infinitely more costly than the granting of immediate economic and naval assistance to the Allies...