Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), of which shrewd old Heber Jedediah Grant is Prophet, Seer & Revelator, owns sugar-beet fields, banks, hotels, the oldest U. S. department store (Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution, Salt Lake City). During Depression, however, Mormons felt the pinch like everyone else. By this year 88,000 of the Church's 638,000 members were on relief rolls. Last month the Mormon First Presidency, whose absolute head is Heber Grant, resolved to take the indigent Saints off relief by next Jan. 1. Revealed last week were full details...
...Indeed, the conference had to be transferred from the Dearborn Inn to the Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit. Next to Henry Ford, the most distinguished guest was Heber J. Grant, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "I am here to learn," said that venerable Mormon leader...
Another in the new crop of Western sensations is beautifully built Dean Detton, better known as the Mormon Flash, who attributes his success to religious adherence to the tenets of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints...
...branching into beet-sugar, banks, insurance, rapid transit. Before he died in 1912 he persuaded Son Marriner to accept his church's "call." Two early years of Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles' life were spent in Scotland in the frock coat and silk hat of a Mormon missionary...
Remarking that his Church's prohibition of tobacco, alcohol, tea and coffee is only ''advisory." Mormon Young said: "I've been on binges, of course, and smoked and done things like that, but that doesn't mean damnation...