Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Serving a Mormon Empire...
...tail completed a semicircle. In its cockpit lay Lieutenant Wooster with his neck broken, Commander Davis with his face crushed-both lifeless in a gloomy pool of water and gasoline. Thoughtfully, they had turned off the ignition, so that the giant did not catch fire. To Noel Davis-Mormon, cowpuncher, high in his class at Annapolis, intrepid minelayer and minesweeper in the North Sea, Harvard law student, with a pretty wife and a little son, Noel Jr.; and To Stanton Hall Wooster-Connecticut Yankee, Yale student and Annapolis graduate, once lost in a wrecked plane in Panama jungles...
...With Alfred A. Knopf to oil the wheels, and Samuel Knopf Sr. to inspect and supervise as business manager, Editor Mencken stoked his engine with a wide variety of engaging combustibles- articles by articulate hoboes and Senators, bishops and Negro poets, Clarence Darrow and Ernest Boyd, a barber, a Mormon. The circulation steamed steadily ahead-42,614 at the end of 1924; 62,323 in 1925; to its peak of 79,531 a year ago. Less than a third of the buyers- about 23,000-are subscribers. The rest pay 50c per month at newsstands. "Urbane and washed...
When Congress adjourned, Senator William H. King of Utah, Democrat and Mormon, left Washington for a self-appointed investigating tour of Porto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Haiti. Last week in Porto Rico he received notice that he was not wanted in the Negro Republic of Haiti. Simultaneously, the Haitian Minister in Washington received a cablegram from the Haitian government. It said...
...Republicans) to 34 (all Democrats) ? six less than the necessary two-thirds majority. In executive session behind closed doors, debate had fumed intermittently for more than a fortnight. Senator Borah, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and the Administration backed the treaty; Senator King, sharp-tongued Mormon from Utah, and his band of Democrats fought it on the grounds that it fails to carry out Woodrow Wilson's plan for Armenian independence, that it does not guarantee protection to Christians and non-Moslems in Turkey,? that it fails to provide recognition by Turkey of the U. S. nationality...