Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kindly, scholarly Democratic Senator for the past 18 years, took a $17,500-a-year job as the first civilian High Commissioner of the Pacific islands taken from Japan in World War II (and since governed by the Navy). A lifetime student of the Pacific area and onetime Mormon missionary in Japan (1907-12), Thomas helped lay out the U.N. formula for postwar trusteeships at Montreal...
Still maintaining his average of an honor a week, Bernard Baruch received the Mormon Medal of Honor for "unselfish and distinguished services" to his fellow men. Also honored with the same medal: Herbert Hoover...
...wealthy Salt Lake City automobile dealer, bank director and paint manufacturer, who proved that a former president of the National Association of Manufacturers can be elected to public office. He lost only one county - and that by but 29 votes - in toppling liberal Democratic Senator Elbert Thomas. A devout Mormon who likes to sing and write hymns, Bennett won a medal on the University of Utah debating team in 1919, taught school briefly...
...music of violins in the velvety Carlton Hotel, but a rosy apple gnawed at his desk, or a delicatessen lunch thrown together in his office with fruits, home-canned goods and cheeses sent to him by friendly farmers. His idea of relaxation is reading law books. A Mormon,* he never smokes, sips a Scotch highball only when it seems to be the necessary social gesture. Yet, while maintaining the appearance of the man who gets lost behind a potted fern at cocktail parties, the Secretary of Agriculture has become one of the most controversial figures in U.S. public life...
...town. The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs had decided to take over an abandoned Army hospital on the southern edge of Brigham City as a school for several hundred Navajo children from Arizona. Some townsmen had visions of a horde of adolescent savages. Others could see their orderly little Mormon community ringed by a fringe of tepees...