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...brown-skinned peoples in a passage from the Book of Mormon, which Founder Joseph Smith produced as revelation in upstate New York in 1829. In Smith's history of the first inhabitants of America, some of the white-skinned, "delightsome" members of the Israelite tribe of Lehi grow quarrelsome and sinful after arriving in America from Israel. Result: they turn dark-skinned and "loathsome," thereby producing the American Indians. A patriarch named Hagoth builds a boat, sails away into the Pacific and is never heard of again. Many Mormons presume that Hagoth's descendants are today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hagoth's Children | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...laborers worked for farm produce. The N. D. A. now operates an oil refinery, two canning factories, a tannery, a coal mine. It has a two-story headquarters at Salt Lake City in which it maintains a produce and goods exchange. There are branches in Ogden, Brigham. Logan, Lehi, American Fork. Price and Delta, Utah. Idaho branches are located at Preston, Montpelier, Rexburg, Ridgedale. There is another at Phoenix, Ariz. The N. D. A. plans to spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: For Money | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 5/26/1884 | See Source »

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