Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Reed Smoot of Utah was at pains, last week, to deny a rumor that he was about to resign his seat in the Senate to become head of the Mormon Church. Heber J. Grant, present head of the Church, is ill; but even if he should die, Rudger Clawson is senior to Mr. Smoot among the Mormon elders...
...Mormon...
...United States a system of laws which allows of parties being divorced in one state but not in another; of a marriage being valid in one state but invalid elsewhere; of a child being a lawful heir in one and illegitimate in another; and of a man, not a Mormon, having two legal wives, changing one or the other according as he moves from one state to another, and which as we have seen, operates to make those entirely innocent the principle sufferers...
...practical peace plan and announced a committee in charge of the award, including as a member one John W. Davis, quondam Ambassador to the Court of St. James?speeding west beyond the Mississippi, in sweltering June and July, President and Mrs. Harding were entertained by farmers, Mormon elders, cowboys, pioneers, Indians?as far as Alaska. There Mr. Harding became ill?the first untoward event of the trip. Then homeward they came; a glorious stop at Vancouver; a collision at night with a destroyer in the mists of Puget Sound; a review of the fleet; a terribly strenuous day in Seattle...
Moses, trim and aggressive, occasion ally unleashed his lightning wit, or gave a neat whip cut across the flank of an attacking Democrat. Smoot, the Mormon elder, tall and slender as a mast, with a voice like a wind murmuring among the halyards, went unostentatiously about his business. Fess, coming forward in a halting defense of his brother Ohioan, Daugherty, met the biting attack of the active, relentless Norris. While from the farthest cor ner, Magnus Johnson, in broad Swedish accent, vouched for the distress of the farmers and threatened, if he were re-elected next Fall...