Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Smoot, Mormon Elder, in his office at Washington, picked up a glass in one hand and a bottle of mineral water in the other. The bottle slipped. He caught it with the hand holding the glass. Glass and bottle fractured. Three of his fingers required surgery. John W. Langley, Representative from Kentucky, Chairman of the Public Buildings Committee, convicted for conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act and sentenced to two years in Atlanta, is to be relieved of his post as Chairman...
...Jones is an architect by profession, a Mormon by religion, and is noted for his research in geology. His lecture tonight will be illustrated by colored lantern slides...
...week from Friday, the date announced for the appearance on the Union platform of John St. Loe Starchy, another Union audience will be able to hear Randall L. Jones, an architect by profession, a Mormon by religion, and a student of geology by avocation. Mr. Jones will speak at the Union on December 3, at 7.30 o'clock, in the Union Living Room...
...everybody thought the world was flat . . . religious ignorance and bigotry as any that justified the Spanish Inquisition or the hanging of witches in New England. . . . The State of Tennessee has no more right to teach the Bible as the Divine Book than it has the Koran, the Book of Mormon, the Book of Confucius, the Buddha or the Essays of Emerson. . . . Who is the Chief Mogul that can tell us what the Bible means ? . . . Nothing was ever heard of all that [Christian divisions] until the Fundamentalists got into Tennessee. . . . Here is one thing I cannot account for, that...
...Announcing that Joseph Smith Jr. had made enough revelations to last 20 years, the Yankee Moses put his faith in hard work and sermonizing. He laid out his city, instituted communal economics, established a stream of immigration from the East and Europe by steamship and handcart caravans, drove the Mormons to make their wilderness blossom as a rose with a plentiful mixture of hard sense, humor, reproach and simple sincerity. He made friends with the Indians and fenced successfully with Washington. Under him, polygamy, previously furtive, became a public duty. Men took crones and pining spinsters as well as bevies...