Word: mormons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people off to jail for living as man and wives. Similar posses in other cities swiftly followed suit. By nightfall State and Federal police had dragged from bedroom & parlor, and jailed 50 men and women in Utah, Idaho, Arizona. It was the biggest raid on polygamists since the orthodox Mormon Church officially outlawed plural marriage...
...members), solidly respectable Mormon Church has learned that polygamy dies hard. Despite Mormon President Wilford Woodruff's 1890 revelation that the world was not yet ripe for plural marriage, there have been periodic polygamous scandals. Many polygamists went underground, kept their plural families in hideaways sometimes known as "lambing grounds." In the last few years the Mormons have expelled more than 200 men and women for polygamy...
...Fundamentalists are a severely secretive group. They build no churches, meet quietly in members' homes. But their unabashed magazine Truth advocates polygamy as a divine command. For the Fundamentalists, who hotly reject President Woodruff's revelation, consider themselves the true disciples of the many-wived Mormon Founding Fathers, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young...
Last week's polygamy crackdown was prompted by an appeal by Mormon leaders themselves. The polygamists' prosecutor is a tall young Mormon, U.S. Assistant District Attorney John S. Boyden. Since there is no U.S. law against polygamy (except in territories), Boyden invoked the Mann Act, the Lindbergh kidnapping law (against a group who took a 14-year-old girl polygamist to a "lambing ground"), the prohibition against mailing obscene literature, etc. Basis for the raids was a recent test case in which the Government sent Polygamists John and Lola Zenz to prison for terms of five...
...Pagnanelli" made secret photographs of a passionate lett r written to a friend by Salt Lake City's J. H. McKnight, a Mormon who always wore long flannel underwear in hot weather and had trouble with his spelling: "Oh, how I would love to strike hands with such nobelmen as Father Coughlin, Jearald Winrod, William Dudley Pelley .. . not to say Wheeler, Lindbergh the incomparable, Senator Nye and Walsh, and others too numerous to mention here. Oh, what I would give to be numbered with them, what an honor, what a rare prevelidge...