Word: treasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revelation " establishing polygamy, but it is supposed that he had been secretly practicing it for some years. When the purport of the new revelation became generally known there was an uprising against the Mormons, and several of their leaders, including Smith, were arrested on a charge of treason. A mob, with the connivance of the militia guard, broke into the building where they were imprisoned and shot Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum dead...
After Smith's death, Young claimed the succession to his office. He contrived to have the Council of Twelve, of which he was head, made the supreme authority in the Church, and had his most potent rival, Rigdon, tried for threatening treason and " cut off from the Church." It was not until 1847, however, that Young was chosen as Smith's successor. Under his leadership the Mormons migrated to Salt Lake City. When Utah was admitted into the United States as a territory in 1850, Young was the first Governor. He died in 1877, leaving an estate of more than...
...Karolyi's influence in politics lies between October 31, 1918, and March 22. 1919. It has been written of him that he is the "Pure Fool of Hungary with the accent on the pure." Recently the Budapest Supreme Court confiscated his lands, finding him guilty of high treason. There is no question of accents. Karolyi is either a fool or a traitor; most probably a fool: At the end of October, 1918, he formed the Hungarian Provisional National Assembly, and some time later he was elected first and last President of the Hungarian People's Republic. At this...
...President Harding urging him to take action if Governor Smith of New York should sign a bill passed by the state legislature to repeal New York's prohibition enforcement law. Said Mr. Wait: " Every state official who voted for this bill is subject to the law of treason, having taken the oath to sustain the Constitution of the United States...
This will be the first time that a reigning British monarch has ever paid a visit to the Pope since the Reformation-1534, complete separation from Rome by Act of Supremacy, which made it treason to deny that Henry VIII was the supreme head of the English Church...