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[…] campaign, Gordon Taylor Hyde, a former Mormon bishop, and Joseph J. Cannon, former editor of the Deseret News, prepared a seven-page pamphlet, “Morals and the Mayor,” which made numerous moral allegations against Lee’s administration […]
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