Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary Benson is, obviously, a person of integrity . . . Would it be permissible, however, to wonder about the integrity of the professional separatists in the matter of church and state, whose vociferous hue and cry is strangely quiet when one of the Twelve Apostles who guide the Mormon Church is included in the President's Cabinet...
They are more philosophy than politics. But as the campaign became more bitter, as he was pulled off his podium into the political snake pit, the quality slips. Only a few times in the last few weeks could he match his first efforts. Perhaps he came closest in the Mormon Tabernacle on October 14, where he said...
...Benson." For two years, he spread the Mormon gospel through the slums of Newcastle, hard hit by postwar depression. Clad in workman's pants and a green turtleneck sweater, young Benson became a familiar figure preaching to groups of unemployed on street corners. He organized athletic clubs, ran picnics, signed up converts. Many a Newcastle oldtimer still refers to him fondly as "our Benson." Said one last week: "He spoke with the voice...
Home again in 1923, Ezra made straight for Flora Amussen's doorstep, and proposed. But the Mormon Church stepped in again. This time it was her turn to do a missionary stint in Hawaii. Benson enrolled in Brigham Young University, where he matched Flora's reputation by being voted most popular man in his class, and graduated with honors. One professor recalls: "He was the smartest agriculture student I've ever had." Finally married in 1926, Flora and Ezra set off in a model T pickup truck for Iowa State College, where he had won a scholarship...
...cooperative offered him a job at $40,000 a year, and Benson, then president of the Washington Stake* of the Mormon Church, set off for Salt Lake City to get advice from his superiors. He never even got to ask; instead, the Mormon leaders asked him to become one of the Twelve Apostles. Benson accepted, was given a living allowance of about $6,000 a year...