Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took off from Manhattan by air for Bombay. For the next two months they will visit universities and live in student hostels at Poona, Madras, Mysore and Travancore. There they will explain U.S. democracy to their Indian colleagues. "Some of us will soon have to do military service," said Mormon David Lund, 21 (who won $120 on a radio quiz show to help finance his trip). "It struck us that here we are ready to go to Korea and fight, but that right now we're not doing anything for our country ... I can face dying for my country...
Hugh and Charley Whitney didn't bother to put on masks when they held up the bank at Cokeville, Wyo. one hot afternoon back in September 1911. Downtown Cokeville consisted of five saloons, one Mormon meeting house, a mercantile store, a hotel and Old Lady Ryan's eating house. It had one automobile, 350 people and enough droop-eared, hitching-rack broncs to keep the flies moderately busy. Hugh was 23 and Charley was only...
...Although the Mormon church has banned polygamy since 1890, some fundamentalist heretics practice it in defiance of church and state. Last week, Arizona authorities were trying hard to catch one of them. The fugitive: George Merlin Dutson, excommunicated middle-aged Mormon...
...they had nothing but admiration for Dutson. They were not bothered at hearing that he was courting three more women. When asked where he was, they answered happily, "Between here and there." At week's end it seemed likely that Dutson had jaunted off to Mexico, where, Mormon Bishop Wendel Davis suspects, he maintains a sort of foreign branch with two wives...
...biggest cheese maker in Star Valley is a Swiss immigrant named Ernest Brog, who went to Wyoming in 1923. Brog taught valley farmers how to improve their herds and boost milk production, often bought equipment for them out of his own pocket, joined the Mormon Church to which most of them belong...