Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grateful Mormon...
...read TIME religiously. Your interesting resume of the Mormon Centenary in April 7 issue was profoundly impressing and gratifying to me, because of its unbiased and impartial survey of Mormonism in its true light. Inasmuch as I am of the opinion that the Mormon people have been misunderstood, your unprejudiced account was received as an added source of appreciation. May I congratulate the author of the mentioned article on having written the most accurate and impartial account of the Mormons which I have read in any of the national magazines. This gratitude-from an ardent reader of TIME...
...confused with Mormondom is Reorganized Mormondom. The former's hosts number 700,000; the latter 's 100,000. But the Reorganized Church claims to be the legal successor of the original Mormon church as founded by Prophet Joseph Smith...
...Founder Smith was martyred, shot down by his persecutors. A Mormon faction repudiated the leadership and sun dry policies (including polygamy) of his successor, Brigham Young. In 1860 Joseph Smith, son of Founder Smith, be came first president of this group's Re organized Church. Seven years later numerous Reorganized families went back to Independence, where headquarters were established...
...Mormon wealth, though impossible to calculate, is apparent to anyone who studies Salt Lake City commercially. The Church owns The Deseret News, two hotels, two office buildings, the Beneficial Life Insurance Co., and Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution (first U. S. department store, 1868). Through the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co., the Church owns 24,539 acres of farm lands and operates numerous beet sugar factories in Utah, Idaho, Washington, Montana, South Dakota. Board chairman of this company is Heber Jedediah Grant, now President of the Mormon Church. But though net current assets are listed at $3,466,860, worldwide...