Word: mormons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There was no use two bulls going in there and locking horns," explained the farm-raised Fullmer, who does not let his profession prevent him from being an elder in the Mormon Church...
...However, in accepting the offer of the court, he undertook to comply with the requirement to regularly attend his church. In my opinion, this was a reasonable requirement . . . I'm not a Catholic, but I would do this whether the boy was a Hindu, a Methodist or a Mormon...
...climax of an annual four-day festival. While other faiths may frown, the Mormons encourage dancing between couples lest the Devil find other work for them. Each of some 1,400 Mormon chapels holds a dance every Saturday night-including a floor show during intermission to undercut any inclination couples may feel to wander off by themselves. The result is that the Mormons are easily the dancingest denomination...
Sponsor of the festival is the Mormon Young Men's and Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association, which traces its origins back to an admonition that polygamous Brigham Young delivered to his numerous daughters after dinner on the night of Nov. 28, 1869: "Retrench, retrench in your dress, in your tables, in your speech. Retrench in everything that is bad and worthless, and improve in everything that is good and beautiful." The Latter-day Saint Retrenchment Association, sparked that evening, eventually became M.I.A., which now has a worldwide membership of 367,860. Directors of activities contribute their services...
Died. Stephen L (for nothing) Richards, 79, first counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one of the powerful triumvirate that rules the church, shrewd lawyer and businessman who concentrated on the far-flung Mormon missionary program; of a heart attack; in Salt Lake City...