Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee proved by week's end that Adams had in fact done his friend any good in any of his Government troubles. Be that as it may, Goldfine understood how the Adams friendship let him wheel and deal. "He told me," testified Goldfine's latter-day enemy John Fox, publisher of the Boston Post, in court in April, "that as long as he had Sherman Adams in his pocket he could do it." An old hand at politics, Adams knew Washington well, and he would have been an unknowing man indeed not to realize that interest...
...papers are pinching pennies. Far from retrenching, the Atlanta Newspapers Inc.'s Journal and Constitution are spending more money. Explained Journal-Constitution Executive Editor Gene Patterson: "It was either retrench or increase expenditures and try for a better product that will sell. We thought the latter would be more rewarding...
...line, thus, in effect, putting every sport in an unfair position when competing with the other teams in the league. Or we could cut down drastically on our support to these teams, at least providing for the minimal needs of the other sports. After careful consideration, we chose the latter course...
Much has been written about the Mormons since Joseph Smith founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in upstate New York a century and a third ago, but most of this writing has been marred by an all too obvious lack of detachment. The past several years, however, seem to have opened up a new and welcome era of objectivity...
Mulder and Mortensen have also garnered brief accounts of Mormonism from a lineup of 19th century notables: Horace Greeley, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson (who called Mormonism an "after-clap of Puritanism"), John Greenleaf Whittier, and Mark Twain. The latter's revulsion at the concept of polygamy melted at his first sight of the "poor, ungainly and pathetically 'homely' creatures" that were the Mormon wives. "No," Twain wrote, "--the man that marries one of them has done an act of Christian charity which entitles him to the kindly applause of mankind, not their harsh censure--and the man that marries...