Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressure group, said that the state P.T.A. was nothing but its "echo." Finally, just for the sake of economy, Lee made another recommendation: that the state close Carbon Junior College in the town of Price, and that it transfer three other state-supported junior colleges to the Mormon Church...
...Save-the-College Committee, with Lee's ex-campaign manager at its head. Meanwhile, Weber County also rose up in arms when it heard that its own college, which for years it had hoped to turn into a four-year institution, was to be transferred to the Mormon Church. "I tell you," cried one Weber senator, "that my people are angry." Echoed the Friends of Weber College Committee: "Fear is in the hearts of those who spawned this plot, and our people are aroused as never before...
...licensed men who used religion as screen for systematic 'white slavery' and economic exploitation," it was a screne and prosperous enterprise. A visitor to Short Creek before the great raid would have found it much like any other American town, a little more prosperous than most, perhaps, because its Mormon principle of pooling cattle and grain left no one hungry...
...troubles, said George Humphrey, "when I say my prayers at night, I thank God I am not Ezra Taft Benson." Ezra Benson, Apostle of the Mormon Church, needed all the divine guidance he could get in his new job as Agriculture Secretary. He inherited enormous problems-falling farm prices, huge surpluses, a price support system that encouraged still more overproduction. Like his businessmen associates in the Cabinet, Benson thought that what the U.S. needed was more freedom, notably in agriculture...
Inside, where no gentile (i.e., non-Mormon) may enter, the two main functions of every Mormon temple will be performed: baptism and marriage-of the long dead as well as the living. Retroactive ceremonies in behalf of the dead, Mormons believe, help to bring salvation to the billions who have died during history with no knowledge of the Mormon faith. Thus the Latter-day Saints are famous for their genealogical diligence; teams fan out from Salt Lake City headquarters to search genealogies all over the world that the dead may be known and saved with the aid of the living...