Word: mormons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occurred to anyone that objections might also be raised to the appointment of Secretary of Agriculture Benson? . . . Benson holds a position in the Mormon Church comparable to that of a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. Why no howls about that...
Died. Elbert Duncan Thomas, 69, scholarly New Deal Senator from Utah (1932-50) a sponsor of the G.I. Bill of Rights, and Truman-appointed High Commissioner of the U.S. trust territories in the Pacific; of pulmonary infarction; in Honolulu. A benign Ph. D., Thomas served five years as a Mormon missionary in Japan, taught Latin, Greek, political science and Oriental history at the University of Utah, wrote six books (Sukui No Michi. Chinese Political Thought, The Four Fears, etc.), doodled in Japanese...
...member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) since...
Horseback Clinics. Reser is the last survivor of the U.S. Marines' 19-year (1915-34) occupation of Haiti. A Utah-born Mormon, who joined the Navy in his youth to see the world, he went to the island 25 years ago as a chief pharmacist's mate assigned to conduct horseback clinics for ailing peasants. Reser took to the people and their tropical ways at once. He studied the properties of native herbs, listened to the advice of voodoo doctors...
...Treasurer of the United States: Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest, 47, of Bountiful, Utah, assistant chairman of the Republican National Committee, a Republican party worker since she was enrolled as a baby sitter at the age of 10. Ike's second Mormon appointee (the first: Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson), she has always managed the family budget for her husband (a wholesale furniture dealer) and three children, proudly boasts that "my checkbook always balances." As Treasurer her main job will be to do the same for the Treasury's accounts and to sign her name...