Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Salt Lake City, he addressed a $100-a-plate luncheon of 38 local businessmen (half of them Republicans). "If political victory requires that the Negro always be reminded that he is a Negro, the Catholic that he is a Catholic, the Jew that he is a Jew, the Mormon that he is a Mormon-and the Texan that he is a Texan," Johnson said, "then I am willing to forgo victory...
After the Mormons founded Salt Lake City, Mormon Leader Brigham Young looked out from his temple and concluded the church would do well to get into the money-changing business. Up and down the valley the "Gentiles" (non-Mormons) were taking the lead in opening rich mines, establishing basic industries, and providing banking services to Brigham's band. Moreover. Mormon businessmen needed capital in quantities that only the church would provide. Accordingly, in 1873 Young founded a Mormon bank, and the Latter Day Saints became the only U.S. religious institution to get into ranking...
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Easter music and ballet, with the University of Utah Corps de Ballet and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir...
Cleon Skousen, 47, FBI veteran and Mormon Sunday-school teacher, who has run a model police force for 3½ years...
Bright Future. By selling 10,000 shares (leaving him with 13,740), Romney got $900,000, of which $200,000 went to pay the capital-gains tax, another $200,000 for debts remaining from the first purchase, and $70,000 for tithing to Romney's Mormon church. His net: some $430,000. This is about $200,000 short of what he needs to pick up the last 14,500 shares on the first option, plus another 12,600 shares becoming available this year on his other two options. By paying off his first debt, Romney can now borrow again...