Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paper raises doubts about the Mormon succession
Bell, 59, a teetotaling Mormon and World War II Marine machine-gun instructor, grew up in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, a farming community. After graduating from Albion State Normal School in southern Idaho, he taught chemistry and physics and coached basketball. Armed with a 1961 doctorate in educational administration from the University of Utah. Bell began earning high marks in administrative posts for the state of Utah, Salt Lake City and HEW. He resigned as Ford's Education Commissioner in 1976 for a more lucrative job as Utah commissioner of higher education, citing the imminent necessity of sending three...
...When Mormon scouts wandered through the Bear River Valley of southwestern Wyoming in the 1840s, they found oil flowing into streams and used it to grease the axles of their wagons. But it was not until 1974, when a deep pool of oil was tapped at Pineview Field outside the small town of Evanston, that the rush began...
...Harvard people embrace individual Mormon ethics and metaphysics of James, Royce, Whitehead, Santayana, Hocking; eschew the worst cleave to the best of pilgrim fathers--in a moral commitment equal to the intellectual: you can transcend modern man into a dramatic new amalgam, generating a powerful and irresistible public mood, in which the weakest and most derelict find it easy to do right and hard to do wrong. Henry Ratliff...
...school; Gunter opposed it. He supported ERA; she did not. There was no argument over the candidates' support of Israel, a critical issue for Florida's sizable Jewish population. Gunter, who is a Baptist, reminded voters that he had met his wife Teresa in Jerusalem. Hawkins, a Mormon, told members of a synagogue: "There are twelve tribes of Israel, and the Mormons happen to be one of them. That's my belief." Hawkins was undoubtedly helped by the Reagan landslide. At a rally in Miami, the G.O.P. candidate told a loudly cheering crowd: "I want Paula Hawkins...