Word: mormons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, it was the same Senate-the 69th. There was Sen. Charles Curtis, the Republican leader, getting up from his back row seat and going out with Sen. Reed Smoot, the tall, lean Mormon, who is Chairman of the Finance Committee. When the latter speaks, it is with a dry holy passion for financial soundness. Mr. Curtis rarely speaks, but together they steer, or attempt to steer the Senate. Last week they brought peace into the Republican ranks, placated the insurgents with good committeeships...
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, Mormon, pre-eminent in the financial affairs of the U. S. government, is expected to defeat Ashby Snow, Democrat, also Mormon...
...Oahu College, and then went to Williams College. He received his law training in Boston and returned again to the Islands, but still the great 200, 300, 400 Ib. monarchs, begarlanded, strutted on their way ?an illustrious dynasty, Kamehameha III, Kamehameha IV, Kamehameha V, Lunalilo, Kalakaua. A Mormon colony settled there; an adventurer came up from Sumatra, Walter Murray Gibson, and became Minister; prohobition was abolished; Chinese settlers came, Spaniards, Japanese, Portuguese. A lottery was chartered, medicine men and opium venders were licensed...
...mustaches is Curtis,* Republican leader. He came years ago from Kansas, with Indian blood in him. You seldom hear from him. He is all the time behind the scenes patching up compromises, pleasing people. The tall thin man next to him with the long neck is Smoot-the other Mormon. He is chairman of the Finance Committee. He speaks with a soft voice and retires from the outworks when somebody sets up an outcry. That third man, going up to them, looks like a. prosperous business man and he is. It is Butler, who is supposed to be especially close...
...astronomy correct? Look to the Bible. And yet, the Bible was written before the invention of the telescope. Is my geology correct? Is my biology correct? Look to the Bible. . . . If perchance the majority somewhere should not be a Christian majority, the Koran or the Book of Mormon or any other might equally well be set up as a standard of truth, knowledge and scientific learning...