Word: mormons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first book, The Giant Joshua is the 633-page story of a Mormon wife and of the pioneer community in which she lived out her marriage. Exhaustively detailed and rather well-told, it is not merely a good fictional history of a special group and period; it is also a good novel about human beings in general...
Actually, there was a great deal besides: the profound routines of motherhood and child raising (which Author Whipple does hardly better than average), her friend ship with mousy-haired Willie (which she does excellently), her whole life as a member of a Mormon community during its first intense decades...
...Salt Lake City in 1890, snow-bearded Wilford Woodruff, then President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, received a revelation from the Lord that the world was not yet ripe for the doctrine of plural marriage. Forthwith he banned it, ordered immediate excommunication of all Mormons who insisted on the full life, including polygamy. That obstacle at last removed, Utah was admitted to Statehood, although Reed Smoot, Mormon Senator, wasn't sure of his seat until after an exhaustive Senate investigation had disclosed that Mormons did not have two horns and a tail, as charged...
Last week another Mormon went to the Senate. Nevada's Governor E. P. Carville (a Catholic) appointed to the seat of the late Key Pittman a 34-year-old L. D. S. bishop, Berkeley Lloyd Bunker, a Texaco filling-station operator of Las Vegas...
...Senate's age average dropped, with oldsters being replaced by such men as Senator-Bishop Bunker and Senator-Newshawk Joseph Ball of Minnesota (35) its Mormon quota had gone up. Already sitting were Saints William H. King and D.Thomas of Utah. Lame Duck King will be replaced Jan. 3 by chubby Saint Abe Murdock. One indirect Mormon loss: the passing from politics of Mormon-admiring Henry F. Ashurst of Arizona...