Word: smith
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...turbulent early years its leaders were able to report direct and literal heavenly guidance on even such mundane subjects as Illinois real estate. But a divine revelation in 1947 would amaze no man more than Mormonism's tall, white-bearded, 77-year-old President George Albert Smith, seventh successor to the prophet Joseph Smith, and the mortal instrument through which a heavenly message would be received...
Plowshares & Perfume. As commander of temporal as well as spiritual affairs, kindly old President George Smith presides over an enormous going concern. The church, as owner of the big and prosperous Z.C.M.I. (Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution), Salt Lake City's first department store, deals in everything from plowshares to perfume. It owns Salt Lake City's top-rung Hotel Utah and its next-best Temple Square Hotel. It owns one of the city's daily newspapers, the Deseret News, and its biggest transmitter, radio station KSL. The church's Utah Idaho-Sugar Co. operates...
This tremendously active and democratic religious cooperative is ruled by an autocratic hierarchy: a Council of Twelve Apostles, two counselors in presidency and, at its apex, the president, George Albert Smith...
Mormonism sprang from the mind of Joseph Smith, who was born in Vermont in 1805, grew up on a Manchester, N.Y. farm, and hated to plow. He was handsome, tall, wavy-haired, had long eyelashes and a faint but unmistakable resemblance to Comic Danny Kaye. He had a fecund imagination and an instinctive sense of drama and command. At 18 he professed to be able to look into a "peep stone" and find hidden gold. He found none...
...stand. The trouble is that certain fascist "extremes" have lately had a curious way of coming to power and hence locally ceasing to be extremes. Liberal Germans have testified that they found the early Hitler quite the same sort of unpromising lowbrow crank as the Crimson evidently imagines Gerald Smith to be. Well, the Reverend Smith is not even now an ineffectual angel; he is held by many, and with reason, to have been the main organizer of the wartime Detroit race-riot. This would suggest that there is a nonacademic quality to Smith's oratory, that his propagation...