Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inclusion of our claims in this connection, we discover the very interesting fact that the alleged biography of Joseph Smith in that compilation was written by Bernard DeVoto who, we note, was born in Ogden, Utah, and who, it is a safe conjecture, either is or was a Utah Mormon, or of Mormon parentage...
...either event, he could not have escaped the Mormon traditions about the "divine principle" of polygamy-divinity wrongfully borrowed from Joseph Smith's alleged but never proven connection with...
Every schoolboy knows that the Mormons (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) used to practice "celestial marriage," better known as polygamy. Last summer sombre Idaho Novelist Vardis Fisher, no Mormon himself though of pioneer Mormon stock, won the $7,500 Harper Prize Novel Contest with Children of God, a 769-page epic of Mormons and their two famed leaders, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Author Fisher told in lusty detail of Prophet Smith's plural marriages before his lynching by a mob at Carthage, Ill., in 1844. To Reorganized Mormons, who believe that Joseph Smith neither...
Last fortnight 3,000 Reorganized Mormon delegates met for biennial conference at Independence, fumed over Vardis Fisher's book. Said goateed President Frederick Smith: "This book is of the same type that besmirched Washington and Lincoln." Everyone laughed when another grandson, Lawyer Israel A. Smith, reported that in the genealogical records of the rival Mormon branch he had found his grandfather listed with the women who had been "sealed to him in celestial marriage" in Salt Lake City. "Joseph Smith," said he, "met his death before Salt Lake City was founded. But it was a real thrill to pull...
...show how fit he felt after a physical checkup, Mormon Heber Jeddy Grant, 83-year-old president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, kicked up his knees right snappily as he left St. Vincent's Hospital, Los Angeles, enthusiastically supported by his son-in-law Wallace F. Bennett and a nurse...