Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salt Lake. In the Mormon Tabernacle* at Salt Lake City 8,000 persons rose and roared when Governor Roosevelt entered to speak. Behind him on the platform were ranged the seats of the twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Apostle Reed Smoot, Republican Senator from Utah, was conspicuously absent. The famed organ pealed and the tabernacle choir sang ''Let the Mountains Shout...
...Frequently and erroneously reported in the Press as the Mormon Temple into which no non-Mormon is ever admitted...
This latest westward shift caused little surprise among U. S. Catholics. Though Western Catholic strength is not to be compared numerically with that of the East, its enrolled communicants are more numerous (save in Mormon Utah and Idaho) than those of any other sect. Once the Western Catholics were scattered pioneers. During the last decade the U. S. hierarchy has worked mightily in the West to build up schools, colleges, churches, hospitals. No State is now without a diocese of its own (last to get one was Nevada last year - TIME...
...approached last week by newsmen seeking his views on Prohibition. His reply: "You'll get nothing out of me on that subject. Not a word! I've got a big enough job on my hands now. Every time I give an opinion on anything-tariff, taxes, the Mormon Church or pigsticking in Argentina- somebody says, 'Well the blink-blank! I'm against him. . . .' I've no intention of making a declaration on any question with which Congress does not have immediate concern." Partisan rowing later spread from House to Senate where New Hampshire...
When he took his girls to London theatres he "often heard hisses about a Turk or an American Mormon being in the house." Highest spot of the summer's adventures was when he was almost caught after lights telling ghost-stories to eight of his bevy in one of their rooms (out of bounds). When Chaperone Lulu knocked on the door Walter hid under the bed. Chaperone Lulu suspected nothing, the girls kept straight faces till "one of Miss Lulu's respectable feet kicked an earthenware object under the bed. There was a musical 'ping,' immediately...