Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corner of 65th and Broadway, I noticed a building on my left. Spacious, modern and airy, looked like the home for Exxon or ITT. But instead a large sign in front announced, "Mormon Visitor Center. Guests Welcome...
...paranoia returned. Visions of Mormon missionaries gripped me. For all I knew, they'd be coming by my room night and day, proselytizing, smashing bottles of booze. I decided to give a pseudonym, but was somehow unable to think up on on the spur of the moment. For a few minutes, I stood in front of the guest book, drumming my pen, trying to think of a fake name, smiling weakly at Sister Wood. Finally, feeling more foolish than ever, I put down my first and middle names--"Cliff Myer...
ENGAGED. Donny Osmond, 20, squeaky-clean teen idol and entertainer who with his sister is host of one of television's most successful variety shows, The Donny and Marie Show; and Debra Glenn, 19, a freshman at Brigham Young University; after a proposal in a Mormon temple in Honolulu, where Donny is making a movie...
DIED. Marriner S. Eccles, 87, Utah banker and former New Deal brain-truster who headed the Federal Reserve Board for twelve tumultuous years; in Salt Lake City. Though a Republican, Mormon Eccles was one of Franklin Roosevelt's earliest backers, and after being named Fed chairman in 1936, he kept monetary policy in step with New Deal efforts to foster economic recovery and fight World War II through massive deficit spending. Accused of turning the Fed into "an engine of inflation," he subsequently tightened up credit and so vigorously reasserted the board's independence that Harry Truman refused...
...former silver mine laborer and longtime University of Utah law professor, Ritter was appointed to the bench by President Truman in 1949. As a non-Mormon liberal, he was bitterly opposed for what was then the sole Utah federal trial judgeship in an acrimonious confirmation fight punctuated by charges of personal immorality and corruption. Ever since Territorial Justice James McKean hauled in Polygamist Brigham Young on adultery charges in 1871, federal judges have traditionally warred with the Utah Establishment; Ritter proved to be particularly contrary, and the only substantial victory against him?installation in 1954 of a second Utah federal...