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...Mormon Elder Benson prayed aloud for the health of the President and Secretary Dulles, and for the accomplishment of their mission. Then Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. briefed the Cabinet on developments at Geneva and passed around an "eyes only," top-secret dispatch from the President, outlining his mutual arms-inspection plan. Each member read the message silently, then passed...
Since 1855, when two Indians were hanged for killing the two sons of a Mormon bishop. 38 men have been executed in the Territory and State of Utah, and all were given Utah's deathly choice. J. J. Morris was the fifth and last murderer to choose death by the noose; all the rest have been shot...
Hell, with the radio, any idiot can make a speech if he can read. It has hurt the country, too. We don't know our candidates like we used to." Ten Carloads of Horses. Knight's parents both came of solid, pioneer, Mormon stock. His maternal grandfather, Judge John Milner, was a British lawyer who went to Provo, Utah for his health, became Brigham Young's secretary, a Mormon, and a fount of culture and learning...
...Salt Lake City Tribune, and his middle name, like his father's, was a shortened tribute to Great-Uncle Jesse Knight, a multimillionaire mine owner, and one of early Utah's most colorful citizens. One night in a dream, Uncle Jesse received instructions through a "manifestation" (a Mormon expression for a message from on high) to stake a claim at the supposedly worthless Humbug property. He struck gold, silver and lead, made $30 million, then gave most of it away to the church and various charities, was known for the rest of his life as "The Dream...
According to H. Rowan Gaither, Jr., the current president of the Foundation, philanthropy, like the old Mormon defense of polygamy, "is a hard thing to live." Gaither's staff receives more than 7000 letters a month, many of them seeking part, if not all, of the Foundation's annual income. As a result, the Foundation must reject far more requests than it can accept...