Word: mormons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate Bronson Cutting promptly identified himself with the Progressives. His first windmill was the ''dirty book" provision tacked onto the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. In one of the gaudiest shows ever staged on Capitol Hill he attacked the provision with such guile and learning that even Mormon Reed Smoot was finally reduced to apoplectic silence. Result: an amendment giving suspected foreign books the benefit of court trial. In the same year he led the fight which passed, over President Hoover's veto, the Cutting-Hawes Bill for Philippine Independence. In the 1930-31 session he labored mightily...
Died. Anthony Woodward Ivins, 82, ranch owner, second in command of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) to his cousin, President Heber J. Grant; of a heart attack; in Salt Lake City...
...winter. Reports this year were far from heartening. Grasshoppers, No. 1 bane of Northwestern grain farmers, got through a mild winter in enormous numbers. Chinch bug mortality in the Midwest was only 3%. In Indiana and Kansas 93% of Hessian flies emerged unscathed from their underground puparia. Millions of Mormon crickets came safely through in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming. Montana. Bitter cold in the East caused high mortality among some destructive insects, but the Japanese beetle was protected by heavy snows and promised to be dangerous. Special funds allocated this year to cope with these pests...
...Mormon cricket...
Sugar men have long known that Claude K. Boettcher has been acquiring stock in Great Western's most important rival, American Beet Sugar Co., second biggest unit in the industry. In 1929 American Beet had acquired control of Mormon-managed Amalgamated Sugar Co. Last week American announced that Claude K. Boettcher had been made board chairman of Amalgamated Sugar. Financial writers immediately guessed that Great Western was reaching out for control of American Beet, whose stock capitalization is only 406,000 shares. This Claude Boettcher denied, claiming that his holdings in American Beet were purely on his personal account...