Word: screnely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...community was, as Governor Pyle termed it, "a lawless, commercial, undertaking dominated by a half-dozen greedy and licensed men who used religion as screen for systematic 'white slavery' and economic exploitation," it was a screne and prosperous enterprise. A visitor to Short Creek before the great raid would have found it much like any other American town, a little more prosperous than most, perhaps, because its Mormon principle of pooling cattle and grain left no one hungry...