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Irate mobs did not denounce Joseph Smith as loafer, drunkard, Satan's instrument, until he had refused to tell the hiding place of the golden plates. After they had dug up most of the Palmyra Hill of Cumorah without finding the gold, they drove him out of New York State. After the Mormon bank in Kirtland, Ohio failed during the panic of 1837, mobs in Ohio, Missouri and Illinois tarred & feathered Smith, lynched his followers. Non-Mormons envied the prosperous, fast-growing Mormon city of Nauvoo, feared a well-trained Mormon army of 5,000 men, and known political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polygamist Epic | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...answers was hard-boiled Dean James M. ("Chink") Landis of Harvard Law School, former head of SEC, whom Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins drafted as special examiner. Also attentive, though not in the little dining room, were large shipping and industrial interests to whom Laborite Bridges personifies Satan; eminent politicians to whom the labor vote is extremely important; and C. I. O. and A. F. of L., U. S. Labor's two bitterly rival wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: On Angel Island | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...more . . . far from conquering our enemies we let them make us after their own image. So at long last, at the end of a ruinous era, we shall be facing again the question-which God grant us grace to face now before it is too late-'How can Satan cast out Satan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To 50,000 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...mind which can most easily be administered to by a dose of rationalization. This group reads that a single new poison gas bomb can wipe out hundreds of thousands of people and whole cities. A kind of popular propaganda has led this group to believe that the Satan vs. God war in Milton's "Paradise Lost" will be considered just a slight scuffle compared to the next Great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMA VIRUMQUE | 12/20/1938 | See Source »

Some years ago polished Card Shark Ely Culbertson, scrawny titan of contract bridge, talked his way into the Tall Story Club. His tall story: a nightmarish bridge game in which Satan sat at his left. When Ely, holding the red & black dream hand- spades AKQJ, hearts AKQ, diamonds AKQ, clubs AKQ-bid a grand slam in no trump, Satan doubled. When Ely redoubled, Satan grinned impishly, reeled off a hellish new green suit to take all the tricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super-Bridge | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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