Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Nebraska, Congregationalist George Dern migrated to Utah, made friends with his Mormon neighbors, though he never joined the Church of the Latter Day Saints. He plugged and profited at mining and engineering, served two terms as Utah's Democratic Governor, was spotted by Franklin Roosevelt as a Cabinet possibility at a Governors' Conference six years ago (TIME, July 14, 1930). As the civilian head of the Army, he kept well in the background, left the service pretty much to its professionals...
Amalgamated Sugar, of which Marriner Eccles has been an officer since 1921, is one of the two great Mormon sugar companies. In 1929 it lost its independent status when the (gentile) American Beet Sugar Co. (now American Crystal Sugar Co.) acquired 99% of its common stock. Like all beet sugar companies Amalgamated had a terrible Depression. It piled up a cumulative operating deficit of $3735,000 (since reduced nearlyone-third) which made it impossible under Utah law for it to pay any dividends. American faced the prospect of not getting any return on its investment for perhaps ten years. Therefore...
...after the Mormon Church whispered its support in John Hamilton's ear [TIME, Aug. 17 1, I assume we will soon hear the Republican slogan: "Two wives in every kitchenette...
Correct is Reader O'Keeffe. Of Patriarch Young's 27 wives, he married 19 in five years. On more than one occasion he married two on the same day and on Jan. 21, 1846, wed four, one pair before lunch, one pair after. Mormon Young's original favorite wife, Emmeline Free Young, bore him ten children. In the Young menage, three children were once born the same month, two the same...
...this citadel of Mormonism, Chairman Hamilton was pleased to have it whispered in his ear that the Mormon Church is almost solidly against the New Deal-Brigham Young having been an ardent opponent of charity...