Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traveled 27,000 miles during the last Presidential campaign; F.B.I. Chief J. Edgar Hoover (Aug. 8, 1949), Defense Secretary Louis Johnson (June 6, 1949), Roy Roberts, of the Kansas City Star (April 12, 1948) Iowa Farmer Gus Kuester (April 29 1946), and President George Albert Smith of the Mormon church (July 21, 1947). Last summer Bell covered the Hiss-Chambers trial in New York City and, having completed his Costello research, he is now back covering the second trial...
...seven-foot marble statue of Mormon Brigham Young lay crated in Washington awaiting a decision on just where it would be set up in the Capitol's "Hall of Fame." Sculptor Mahonri M. Young, a grandson* of the Mormon leader, wanted it to go in a small alcove just off the main rotunda. Utah sponsors wanted it in the rotunda. But, objected the sculptor, the only spot available there is impossible: the statue would be right off the entrance to the ladies' rest room...
Divorced. Marriner Stoddard Eccles, 58, onetime Utah banker and industrialist, veteran New Dealer, since 1934 member of the Federal Reserve Board (and chairman from 1936 until President Truman demoted him last February); by May Campbell Eccles, 56, whom he met in Scotland during his Mormon missionary days; after 36 years of marriage, three children; in Ogden, Utah...
...director of the Zion's Savings Bank & Trust Co., the Utah Home Fire Insurance Co., Utah Oil Refining Co., and vice president of the Clayton Investment Co. He operates a jewelry store in Logan, Utah, and with two brothers runs a Ford agency. He is a Mormon, and two of his three sons are serving in Europe as Mormon missionaries...
...that meeting in the Mormon Tabernacle. It holds 11,000 people and there were about 12,500 at the place, and when I got through with them I don't think there was a Republican in Utah but what didn't feel like he wanted to vote the Democratic ticket...