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...jailees were members of a small (2,500 or so members), dissident sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They are known as the "Fundamentalists." Their leader, 71-year-old Joseph W. Musser, did not deny that he had five wives, 20 children. Other Fundamentalists were said to have as many as six wives, 33 children. Musser predicted that polygamy will some day be permitted in U.S. as boon to surplus women who would otherwise be forced into prostitution...
...Supreme Court of Puerto Rico; President Dan W. Tracy of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; Miss Kathryn Lewis, who quit Bryn Mawr to help her famed father John L., with U. A. W.; Rev. John F. O'Hara, president of Notre Dame University; Mrs. Elise F. Musser, who had kept herself before South American eyes by paying a flying visit to the continent last year with a group of U. S. women on a People's Mandate to urge ratification of Inter-American treaties drafted at Buenos Aires two years...
Into Buenos Aires last week dropped a "flying caravan" of four U. S. women representing the People's Mandate to End War. Led by Pacifist Elise Burton Musser, former Utah State Senator, the members of the flying junket-Mrs. Enoch Wesley Frost of Arkansas, Mrs. Ana del Pulgar de Burke of Washington, D. C. and Mrs. Rebecca Hourwich Reyher of New York-left Hyde Park, N. Y. on October 30, with President Roosevelt's benediction, to exhort the Latin American nations into ratifying the Inter-American conference peace treaties (TIME...
...Honorable'' Alexander F. Whitney, President of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen so that labor will not feel left out; Adolf A. Berle Jr., former brain-truster, because he wanted to go and had earned the right as a friend of the New Deal; Hon. Elise F. Musser, State Senator from Utah because she had worked hard in the campaign; Michael F. Doyle, international lawyer from Philadelphia and Dr. Charles G. Fenwick, professor of political science at Bryn Mawr, because they are Catholics; Dr. Samuel Guy Inman because he is a Protestant. The delegation even has a "special assistant...
Last week a Truth writer named Joseph W. Musser appeared in Short Creek, Ariz. as counsel for four alleged polygamists haled into court. Among the defendants was John Y. Barlow, Brethren leader and man of family. Said he: "If we throw away our belief in polygamy, we throw away our entire belief." Counsel Musser explained: "Perhaps they are practicing polygamy but they are living only with one wife at a time, and when you consider that big business men in the larger cities of the nation are doing the same thing, only under the guise of wife and mistress...