Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thousands of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints converged on Salt Lake City for the Mormon Church's 12 5th semiannual conference. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, a member of the Mormons' top policymaking body, the Council of the Twelve Apostles, voiced a plea "that regardless of the party you are affiliated with, you remember the standard the God of Heaven has given and use your influence to help safeguard the country and see that honest, good and wise men are elected to public office...
...Chairman Christopher Niebuhr '56, would have pledged the H.L.U. not to contradict the official policies adopted by the state wide A.D.A. organization to endorse only those candidates for whom it actually intended to work, and to refrain from working for any candidates not endorsed by the state A.D.A. The latter provision would have automatically prevented any debate at all on a question like the endorsement of Furcolo, since the state organization has declined to support...
Since Simmons' death in August, Dr. Snyder has shared the duties of dean with Dr. Hugh Leavell, professor of Public Health. He and Snyder substituted this spring for the former dean during the latter's trip to the Far East...
Stephens explained that his own group would derive absolutely no benefit from the HLU's proposed meeting even if the latter group were to request it. "There is no doubt in our minds about who are the best candidates," Stephens said...
...Mahoney has found other potent issues in an appropriations cutback for Glendo Dam and in an Interior Department decision to sell North Platte River water stored in Kendrick project to downstream users in Nebraska (he took credit for getting the latter decision modified). Campaigning last week at Powell,, Wyo.,near the Shoshone Reservoir and Heart Mountain Reclamation Project, O'Mahoney invoked two national heroes in attacking Republican power policies. Said he: "The Shoshone project was conceived by Buffalo Bill . . . who organized a company to distribute the water. It soon became apparent, however, that private capital was inadequate...