Word: mormons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came to the bank as a bond officer in 1946, after 16 years as debt manager and economist with the Federal Reserve, and became Continental's chief executive in 1959. Utah-born Kennedy has strongly pushed Continental into family banking for greater profits but also because as a Mormon he believes that "the strength of our country is in the family and the home, and that's where the emphasis should be." He has equally strong convictions about Chicago's future as an international trade center; Continental has opened a London office, is expanding into Argentina, Colombia...
Into Foreign Markets. Nabisco's top seller is still its Premium Saltine, which reinforces the company's principle that most Americans prefer plain foods. President Bickmore himself is a plain-food man. A tithing Mormon from Paradise, Utah, he began in 1933 as a Nabisco salesman in Pocatello, Idaho, but was laid off in a Depression cutback, and started again as a porter in a company warehouse. As he worked up the line, Bickmore took some studies on the side from both Dale Carnegie and Harvard Business School. Since becoming chief executive three years ago, he has bought...
...Negro & the Mormon...
...racial unrest in our country, the fact that a group of several thousand Negroes in Nigeria have asked for baptism in the church, and other outward signs would indicate to sensitive Mormons that the Lord is preparing the way for a change in the policy that excludes the Negro from the priesthood. Such a change would not, as your article stated, require "a most awkward reinterpretation of Mormon teaching on pre-existence." Christ, for reasons of his own, has excluded the Negro from his priesthood in our day, and a change in policy by revelation would not be surprising...
Pursuing his presidential hopes westward, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller landed at Salt Lake City, where he and his wife were greeted by a listless crowd of 100. Then they went off to pay a protocol call on officials of the Mormon Church. Mormon First President David O. McKay, 90, greeted Happy as "Mrs. Roosevelt...