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Based on a reference in the Book of Isaiah (54:2) to a stake strengthening a tent, the Mormon Stake of Zion was established by Prophet-Founder Joseph Smith as the counterpart of a Gentile diocese. Half of the Church's 110 Stakes are in Utah, the largest ones being in Salt Lake City which has 56,000 Mormons. Idaho and California have Stakes. San Francisco got its first one last fortnight. But until last week no state east of Colorado had enough Mormons for a Stake, not even New York where Joseph Smith first saw visions, received from...
...most interest to New York Mormons last week was the presence of their Prophet, Seer & Revelator, who resembles the late "Uncle Joe" Cannon, and talks in the homely, crackling manner of a country storekeeper. President Grant told his listeners how, 52 years ago when he first held Mormon office, the Church had but 1,300 followers outside Utah (at present it has 100,000). He spoke of his troubles as a missionary in England, where he could not get a word in the newspapers to refute the abuse heaped on his faith. "Today," said he, "we are treated splendidly...
That New Dealer was Marriner Stoddard Eccles, 44, Utah banker who since last January has served Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau as a special assistant. Grandson of a covered-wagon pioneer, son of a rich & pious Mormon, Governor Eccles graduated from Brigham Young College at 19, promptly went to Scotland as a missionary. As if to allay fears of his Leftish theories, his business career was carefully itemized last week in a long White House release. He had been: 1) one of the founders and longtime head of a $50,000,000 group of Utah and Idaho banks "which came...
...blizzard of pamphlets proclaiming: "Out Of His Own Mouth Shall He Be Judged." Material was culled from Author Sinclair's iconoclastic shelf of writings over a period of 30 years. These were sorted and directed toward groups in which they would do Sinclair most harm : Catholics, Christian Scientists, Mormons, University of Southern California alumni, Parent-Teachers Associations, etc. Sample: "Christianity has been . . . the chief of the enemies of social progress. . . . We should break down the Catholic machine, and not all the priests in the hierarchy should stop us. . . . It is these [Catholic] societies which . . . are pushing and plotting...
...hundreds of millions of dollars of utility properties for Electric Bond & Share. Before that he was a $75-per-month law clerk in Salt Lake City. And shortly before that the slight, sandy-haired son of a Methodist minister was married to Hortense ("Tenney") Mc-Quarrie, daughter of a Mormon elder...