Word: mormons
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Marriner Stoddard Eccles grew up in Logan, Utah, a rich & pious Mormon- grandson of a covered-wagon pioneer, son of a lumber-banking-utilities tycoon. At 19, graduated from Brigham Young College, he went as a missionary to Scotland. He came home, put his capital with the capital of Browning-firearms heirs to start the First Security system which operated 28 banks (now consolidated into twelve) in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming. He became vice president and treasurer of Amalgamated Sugar Co. and headed a construction company which got a big job out of Hoover Dam.* Last week, aged 43, Marriner Eccles...
...Biggest Mormon-controlled sugar company is Utah-Idaho, headed by Heber Jedediah Grant, chief of the Twelve Apostles. Amalgamated, Mormon-managed, is part of American Beet Sugar Co., second largest beet sugar producer...
...Minister to Persia, President Roosevelt chose William Harrison ("Bill") Hornibrook of Utah, Minister to Siam under President Wilson. The Administration owed quiet, erudite Mr. Hornibrook, publisher of the Salt Lake Times, a double debt. A militant Democrat but no Mormon, he published last year a tract called "Thirty Reasons Why Smoot Should Be Defeated." Onetime Senator Smoot admits the pamphlet defeated his reelection. By substituting Senator James Watson's name for Smoot's, the tract was also used to good effect in the Indiana Senatorial campaign...
...Privateering, Salt Lake Citizens were to decide whether or not to build and operate their own plant at a cost not to exceed $18,000,000. Utah Power & Light Co. is one of the few enterprises in Salt Lake City not controlled by Mormons. Nevertheless, Mormon voters turned thumbs down on the project...
Died. Brigham Henry Roberts, 76, president of the First Council of Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon); of diabetes complications; in Salt Lake City. Elected to Congress in 1898, he was refused a seat by a 5-to-1 House vote because he was an avowed polygamist...