Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first day the celebrating Nebraskans paraded. Governor Arthur J. Weaver led off. Behind him came a history: Francisco Vasquez Coronado. who in 1541, looking for El Dorado, discovered Nebraska; Indians, led by Crow Chief Max Big Man; prairie schooners; oxcarts; stage coaches; a Mormon handcart which had been trundled across Nebraska by foot-sore Mormons So years before. In a stage coach rode the original "Deadwood Dick" Clark, now 83, proudly wearing his many-notched horse pistol, and the original "Poker Alice" Tubbs, now 76. smoking her big black cigar. Eleven appropriately furnished floats represented "The Parade of Nations...
...obtained Nebraska as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Scouts Lewis, Clark, Pike, Fremont explored it. By early pioneers it was called a "great desert entirely unfit for agriculture." Across it were laid the Oregon trail, the Mormon trail to Utah, the "Pony Express" route, the Union Pacific Railroad. The Diamond Jubilee celebrated not Nebraska's 75th year as a State, but its 75th as a political unit. In 1854, by the "Kansas-Nebraska Bill" it became a territory, was permitted to decide its slavery status by "squatter sovereignty" (vote of the settlers). It sent troops...
...Utah's late rugged Bishop Frank Spaulding spoke one day to students at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. The Bishop spoke of Episcopal difficulties in Utah, of the Mormon University at Logan, of Mormon proselytizing. The Bishop was asking for help. "Whom shall we send and who will go?" Student Paul Jones echoed Isaiah: "Here I am, send...
Sugar. Senator Smoot accepted a sliding scale tariff for this most controversial item in the bill. Because his State, Utah, is a great producer of beet sugar; because the Mormon church, his church, is vitally interested in beet sugar, the sugar schedule was to have been Senator Smoot's well-protected pet. That he favored a sliding scale which he admitted would produce rates lower than those proposed in the House bill (3? per lb.), made even his Democratic opponents gasp in astonishment. They accepted his plan as another indication of the receding high-tariff tide. When pressed...
James Cruze of Hollywood directed The Covered Wagon, one of the great cinemas. He has directed many far less great. One of 23 children of Mormon parents, he is brawny, untutored, looks like an Indian...