Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower should be nominated for President in 1956-by the Democrats. If he is so nominated, he will get most of the Democratic votes, all of the Demi-Rep votes and if Sen. Watkins is their leader, all of the Mormon votes unless Jimmie Roosevelt runs. The Americans will have to look elsewhere for their candidate...
...Connecticut-23.6; youngest in Idaho-20.9). The nation's 46,828,000 families are smaller (3.4 persons) than in 1940 (3.77) or in 1890 (4.93). The U.S. has 814,000 more married women than married men (due to reporting discrepancies and absences of husbands on overseas assignments), but Mormon Utah is one state with more (633) husbands than wives. The U.S. has 1,776,681 more women than men (the reverse was true 75 years ago), 50.7 people per sq. mi. (v. 16.9 then), and its population (median age: 30.2, ten years more than in 1879) is 59% urban...
...England, New York, Delaware and Maryland) called Lincoln. Congress approved in 1886, but Grover Cleveland pocket-vetoed the bill on the advice of his politically potent First Assistant Postmaster General Adlai Stevenson, who feared that south Idaho, if left to itself, would become a Mormon commonwealth...
Stringfellow had been talking about the same subject for years. A paraplegic veteran of World War II, he got a job as an Ogden, Utah, radio announcer. In his spare time he made scores of speeches to Mormon church gatherings and civic groups. The story, as it evolved after hundreds of repetitions, was that he had been assigned to the OSS, parachuted behind German lines with 29 other men and kidnaped a German atomic scientist named Otto Hahn. Every other member of the mission, Stringfellow said, was later killed. He said that he was captured and tortured, then escaped...
...president, succeeding the late George W. Mason (TIME, Oct. 18). Though Mason had been interested in a possible merger with Studebaker-Packard, one of Romney's first acts was to announce that "there are no mergers under way either directly or indirectly." The son of an old Mormon family and still a Mormon church reader, Romney earned his first money at eleven, harvesting sugar. He worked his way through Salt Lake City's Latter-day Saints' College, did the traditional Mormon missionary stint in England for two years, and then returned to Utah for further study...