Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mormon) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, pioneer virtues are thrift, diligence, discipline. Last year a "security program" was launched to take 85,000 Mormons off Federal relief, to Mormon leaders a distasteful institution (TIME, June 8, 1936). Since then, jobs have been found for some 23,000 Mormons, the Church has taken over the support of 30,000. Most of the idle were given agricultural work and 24 big regional warehouses have been built to store produce which is the result of redoubled Mormon husbandry. In and around Salt Lake City, 125,000 Mormons were urged last...
When Franklin D. Roosevelt moved into the White House in 1933, Marriner Stoddard Eccles was a Republican banker in Ogden, Utah with a reputation for success and a hatful of original ideas. Not until 1934 did the lean, intense young Mormon go to Washington to dig in as an assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury. Within a year, to the vast consternation of his fellow Eastern bankers, Mr. Eccles was head of the Federal Reserve Board and writing his novel notions into the law of the land. He was not only committed to a strong central banking authority which...
Last week the Prophet, Seer & Revelator of the world's 746,384 Mormons observed his 80th birthday. Hale & happy for such tributes as having a whole issue of the Mormon Improvement Era devoted to his life and works, President Heber Jedediah Grant of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints arrived in Chicago on Mormon business bent. The 2,000 Mormons who live in and around Chicago and Wisconsin were also happy. Heretofore shepherded by Mormon missionaries, they became full-fledged members of the Church last Sunday when President Grant organized their territory into Mormonism...
...reason that Mormonism appeals to a man in search of a religion is that its priesthood is vast, every male communicant in good standing belonging to its higher or lower division depending upon whether he is 21 or younger. There are also plenty of Mormon offices. Chicago's Stake was divided last week into four wards, three in the city, one in Milwaukee, each directed by an elected bishop and two counselors. Elected Stake President was President William A. Matheson of Rollaway Bed Corp. Chicago Mormons are eligible for office in the Mormon agencies which cement the Church...
Marriner Eccles' elevation last week was therefore in the nature of a celebration of Amalgamated's new independence. Moreover, it was quite in accord with old Mormon custom. The other Mormon sugar company, Utah-Idaho, has for its president Heber Jeddy Grant, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of _Latter Day Saints, who does not neglect his spiritual duties for sugar. It has been managed for many years by Vice President Willard T. Cannon. Similarly Henry Arthur Benning, vice president & general manager, runs Amalgamated, although its President Anthony W. Ivins was long another Mormon Church official. Inasmuch...