Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looks as though we need a Moses in this field," said Chairman Ellender to Witness Benson. Other committee members, Republicans as well as Democrats, made it plain that they did not see Bible-quoting Mormon Apostle Benson as the needed Moses. Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington charged Benson with trying to "lick this problem with phrases." North Dakota Republican Milton R. Young rumbled that the lower wheat supports requested by Benson "would break every wheat farmer...
Through its key legislative spokesman and its powerful daily Deseret News and Salt Lake Telegram (circ. 85.105), the voice of the Mormon Church made its message clear to heavily Mormon (65.5%) Utah. The message: it was high time for the legislature to enact a new Sunday closing law to replace the one declared unconstitutional in 1943. Under similar pressure from the big merchants and supermarket operators (who would have to pay union labor triple pay to stay open on Sunday), both houses of the legislature comfortably passed a bill prohibiting Sunday sale of uncooked meats, groceries, clothing, boots and shoes...
...cows off here." he said), the Senator, a tall, bronzed, lean-jawed, silver-haired man of 49. was shaking hands with sleepy-eyed shift workers at the Apache Powder Corp. plant. The day wore swiftly on, the miles slipped by. At Merrill's grocery in the Mormon crossroads of St. David (pop. 10), Goldwater paused for breakfast-a bottle of Coke-before hustling on to a campaign appearance in rural Pomerene (pop. 150). Then came an air hop over the Dragoon Mountains to Elfrida (pop. 300), near the Mexican border, another to lettuce-growing Willcox (pop. 1,500), where...
...shocking news-little Dean was the No. 1 suspect. He had made three separate "statements" ("I stabbed Dad first, then Mom"). He had planned the parricide, he said, while lying in bed several nights before. On the night of the crime, police said, Dean read an article in the Mormon magazine Era entitled, "I Think of Papa." It was illustrated by gnarled hands peeling an apple with a knife, ended: "How priceless is the memory of a good father." Dean left his Boy Scout knife folded inside Era, then went to bed. Later, he told police, he stole downstairs...
There are only 11,000 Mormons in Britain, with 75 chapels. Mormon leaders are sure the new temple will soon draw many converts. Said the temple's president, Selvoy J. Boyer: "Hundreds of people who have been through the temple have asked our missionaries to visit them in their homes to talk to them about our faith...