Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young (36) Senator Berkeley Lloyd Bunker of Nevada is a serious Mormon ex-Bishop who looks like Tyrone Power and is more often seen than heard on the floor of the Senate. Since he took the late silver Senator Key Pittman's place two years ago, he has made the headlines on only one subject: Nevada's huge Government-financed magnesium plant, world's largest (rated capacity: 112,000,000 Ib. a year, 3½-times U.S. output last year), which went into production last month...
Died. James Cruze, 58, longtime cinedirector (Old Ironsides, The Covered Wagon, Merton of the Movies) of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. Born James Cruze Bosen, one of 23 children of Mormon parents, in Ogden, Utah, he was an actor in cinema's early days, became one of the highest-paid and fastest-working directors of the silents. At one time Paramount paid him $1,000 a day every day in the year whether he worked or not. The second of his three wives was Actress Betty Compson...
Senator Bunker is a serious Young Democrat, a Mormon Bishop who was ap pointed to the Senate in 1940, who had heretofore held his peace while learning the ropes. But to Emperor Jones, he was just an annoying young squirt. Jones dashed off a hot reply...
There is one offensive that never ends: man's battle against insects. It is a fight against the grasshoppers, the Mormon crickets, the boll weevils, the chinch bugs, the now doubly despised Japanese beetles and other pests that do two-billion-dollar damage every year in the U.S. alone; against flies, lice, roaches, mosquitoes and other infamous bugs that carry disease. Entomologists estimate that the U.S. harbors 7,000 species of insect pests. Said Entomologist Stephen Alfred Forbes of Illinois: "The struggle between man and insects began before the dawn of civilization . . . and will continue, no doubt, as long...
...silk scarves, gloves, ties, socks, a sweater, a towel bearing the Union Jack, a framed list of U.S. Presidents, a copy of George Washington's will, a painting of the Great Seal of Ohio, a pair of spectacles, a textbook on navigation, a lawbook, The Book of Mormon, a set of Indian arrowheads, a turkey's wishbone (the V-symbol), an autographed picture of Jack Dempsey and a carton of skin lotion, a couple of soap dishes, a portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt done on a typewriter...