Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour with Howe and his wife and then implied to reporters that he had asked Howe to withdraw from his congressional race before the state's Democratic nominating convention so his name could be replaced on the November ballot. Salt Lake's evening paper, owned by the Mormon Church, called for Howe's immediate resignation. The editorial said Utahns hold their officials to higher standards than the rest of the country, adding that if Wayne Hayes had been from Utah he would have long ago been forced to resign...
Still, Howe kept his counsel, though his poll ratings dropped steadily. Mormon Church leaders issued a statement regretting the "embarassment" caused the church by the whole incident. And the rumors started flowing...
...story said that Howe had been called home from a mission and excommunicated from the Mormon Church because he had been playing around with a woman in violation of the church's strict rules about missionary behavior. Howe's secretary in his Salt Lake congressional office said Monday that he was in fact excommunicated "a long time ago," but termed the idea that he had been called back from a mission "ridiculous." She refused to detail Howe's offense, but emphasized that he has since been reinstated in the church and holds several church offices...
...alternatives, but none was well-known enough to win a write-in campaign in the general election. Wayne Owens, who gave up the seat now held by Howe when he ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 1974, was unavailable for the job: he is running a mission for the Mormon Church...
...only did the missionaries suffer through long hours and rough working conditions, they had no pay and poor living quarters. The Mormon Church asks that its missionaries pay for their missions themselves; if they cannot afford to live for two years in a foreign country, sponsors for the missionaries will be found to underwrite the costs. Kimball, originally from Madison, Wisc., lived in a house in South Korea for $70 a month, a fee that included room, board, and laundry. Stromberg describes the places he lived in Japan with one word: "Dumps." And though the paint may be peeling...