Word: mormons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Independence, Mo., the Church of Christ (Mormon offshoot) wound up its general conference by unfrocking Elder Samuel Wood, onetime member of the Quorum of Twelve. His offenses: rebellion against church rules, "unChristian" conduct in Quorum session, heretical preaching that the Godhead is One instead of Three...
...news of the Saints' big annual meeting last week, see Mormon 104th under Religion...
Twelve thousand Saints sat one day last week beneath the vast, umbrella-like roof of the Latter-day Saints (Mormon) Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. Members of that bustling sect which has 700,000 communicants and the largest priesthood per capita in Christendom (158,045 of the worthiest Mormon males), they had come from every white nation and from Hawaii, the Philippines and the South Seas, to attend their church's 104th annual conference. As always, this opened on the anniversary of that day (April 6) in 1830 when Prophet-Founder Joseph Smith with six others organized the Church...
...Mormon Church is run by a First Presidency of three, a Council of Twelve Apostles, a First Council of Seventy. Last week for the first time in three years the Mormons met with a full .organization, vacancies having been filled including that of Second Counselor, which had been expected by Apostle Reed Smoot but which went to Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., onetime Ambassador to Mexico. Since 1918 the First Presidency has been headed by patriarchal, 77-year-old Heber Jedediah Grant, potent businessman as well as divinely authorized Prophet, Seer and Revelator. When this patriarch speaks in conference...
...represent holders of $380,000,000 defaulted Brazilian dollar bonds at conferences in Rio de Janeiro, the Council dispatched J. (for Joshua) Reuben Clark Jr., Mormon lawyer from Salt Lake City who succeeded the late Dwight Morrow as Ambassador to Mexico. The negotiations involved all the 100 or more issues comprising Brazil's $1,000.000,000 of external debt. French, Dutch and British bondholders were also represented. Upshot of this conference was a pact segregating the various issues into eight classes on which service on all but one (old defaults) will be promptly resumed in whole or in part...