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The public practice of polygamy by the church was terminated in 1890 by the Manifesto issued by church President Willford Woodruff in which he publicly declared “ that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriages forbidden by the law of the land.
After visiting priesthood leaders in many settlements, President Woodruff left for San Francisco on September 3, 1890, to meet with prominent businessmen and politicians.
Prefacing the paragraph quoted, L. John Nuttall records in his private journal for Wednesday 7 February 1877 that after serving that day in the St. George Temple and after taking his evening meal, he attended a meeting with President Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff, Erastus Snow, Brigham Young Jr, I. G.
With this rule in place, it was John Taylor who led the Church after Young's death in 1877, first as President of the Twelve and after 1880 as President of the Church with Wilford Woodruff as President of the Twelve.
For example, Brigham Young decided that John Taylor was to be President of the Twelve and Wilford Woodruff follow him in seniority due to the readmission to the quorum of Orson Hyde, who had been disfellowshipped in 1846, and Orson Pratt, who had been excommunicated in 1842.
Woodruff's main aide in this endeavor was John D. T. McAllister, who served as first counselor in the St. George Temple Presidency and then succeeded Woodruff as Temple President in 1884.
* 1890, October 6 ; Members of the Church attending general conference unanimously sustain the revelation President Woodruff received regarding plural marriage.
Smith was present in the large assembly room of the Salt Lake Temple for its dedication on 6 April 1893 by Church President Wilford Woodruff.
* 1890 – LDS Church President Wilford Woodruff issues the 1890 Manifesto, which officially disavowed the practice of polygamy.
The capstone — the granite sphere which holds the statue of the Angel Moroni — was laid on April 6, 1892, by means of an electric motor and switch operated personally by Wilford Woodruff, the church's fourth President, thus completing work on the temple's exterior.
At the capstone ceremony it was proposed by President Woodruff that the interior of the building be finished within one year, thus allowing the temple to be dedicated forty years to the day of its commencement.
President Woodruff dedicated the temple on April 6, 1893, exactly forty years after the cornerstone was laid.
Although Cannon was the second-most senior apostle of the church after the death of Wilford Woodruff, Cannon did not become President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, as would be the practice in the LDS Church today.
Future President of the Church Wilford Woodruff was also ordained as an apostle on the same day.
George Reynolds testified in the Smoot Hearings before the U. S. Senate that he, Charles W. Penrose, and John R. Winder edited the manifesto that President Wilford Woodruff delivered, preparing it for publication.
:"' I move that, recognizing Wilford Woodruff as the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the only man on the earth at the present time who holds the keys of the sealing ordinances, we consider him fully authorized by virtue of his position to issue the Manifesto which has been read in our hearing, and which is dated September 1890, and that as a Church in General Conference assembled, we accept his declaration concerning plural marriages as authoritative and binding.
* Robert W. Woodruff – Attended Oxford for one term, then served as President of the Coca-Cola Company.
However, while plural marriage is eschewed by the LDS Church today, it continued to be practiced, even after The Manifesto ( the 1890 Official Declaration by then LDS President Wilford Woodruff, by which he counseled the Saints to discontinue plural marriage ).
Plural marriage was discontinued by President Woodruff in 1890.
On 7 October 1889, Church President Wilford Woodruff called Cannon as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

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President Johnson called the bill " not revolutionary ", Secretary of State Dean Rusk estimated only a few thousand Indian immigrants over the next five years, and other politicians, including Edward Kennedy, hastened to reassure the populace that the demographic mix would not be affected ; these assertions would later prove wildly inaccurate ..
We must convince the Latin Americans that our way of life is superior to that of the Communists .” The New York Times further explained that “ Castillo Armas had the moral support of the United States ; the Árbenz régime had the support of the Soviet Union .” The New Republic magazine said that “ it was just our luck that Castillo Armas did come by some second-hand lethal weapons, from Heaven knows where .” Newsweek magazine said thatthe United States, aside from whatever gumshoe work the Central Intelligence Agency may or may not have been busy with, had kept hands strictly off ”; that the Eisenhower Administration could have hastened the overthrowing of President Árbenz, “ overnight, if necessary: by halting coffee purchases, shutting off oil and gasoline from Guatemala, or, as a last resort, by promoting a border incident, and sending Marines to help the Hondurans ; and that, instead, the US followed the letter of the law ”, because President Árbenz was overthrown “ in the best possible way: by the Guatemalans .”
Pretelt married fellow Colombian economist Ana Luisa de Zubiría on September 11, 2006, the private ceremony took place in the home of his sister Mercé Pretelt de la Vega, and the godparents were President of Fedegán José Félix Lafaurie and the Attorney General of Colombia Mario Germán Iguarán Arana, the nupcials were hastened due to Pretelt's diplomatic appointment in Italy and left that same day to Rome.
Demicheli was a relative moderate within the civilian-military administrations which ruled Uruguay between 1973 and 1985, in that, although he was known for measures deemed repressive by democracy advocates opposed to the government, he dissented with his military colleagues regarding the extent to which former political figures should be proscribed from pursuing political activities: this is believed to have hastened the end of his short term of office as President of Uruguay.

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* 1937 – New Deal: the United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Joe Lubin, Vice President and Head of A & R of Doris Day and Martin Melcher's Arwin Records, was impressed and offered to add instruments and to release it through Arwin.
The Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937, frequently called the court-packing plan, was a legislative initiative to add more justices to the Supreme Court proposed by U. S. President Franklin Roosevelt shortly after his victory in the 1936 presidential election.
) President William Howard Taft enlisted the help of architect Nathan C. Wyeth to add additional space to the West Wing, which included the addition of the Oval Office.
* July 22 – New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
On February 5, 1937, he sent a special message to Congress proposing legislation granting the President new powers to add additional judges to all federal courts whenever there were sitting judges age 70 or older who refused to retire.
Truman directed the Secretary of the Treasury, John W. Snyder to attend all meetings and Congress amended the National Security Act of 1947 to eliminate the three service secretaries from Council membership and add the Vice President ( who assumed second rank from the Secretary of State ) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff who became permanent advisers to the Council.
In 1954, in response to the perceived threat of secular Communism, President Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add the words " under God ," creating the 31-word pledge that is recited today.
You will inform the President of the above most secretly as soon as the outbreak of war with the United States of America is certain and add the suggestion that he should, on his own initiative, invite Japan to immediate adherence and at the same time mediate between Japan and ourselves.
From February to August 2006, President Adam King led a local campaign to add a nonvoting student adviser onto the Buncombe County ( N. C .) Board of Education.
Mark Weisbrot says that, in more recent years, Argentina under former President Néstor Kirchner made a break with the Consensus and that this led to a significant improvement in its economy ; some add that Ecuador may soon follow suit.
Five days later, the team announced that he would resume the title of General Manager and add the title of Executive Vice President.
On 23 May 2011 EU Foreign ministers agreed at a meeting in Brussels to add President Assad and nine other officials to a list affected by travel bans and asset freezes.
In that briefing on behalf of the White House, Clarke stated " there was no plan on Al-Qaeda that was passed from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration ," and that after taking office President Bush decided to " add to the existing Clinton strategy and to increase CIA resources, for example, for covert action, fivefold, to go after Al-Qaeda.
In 1910, President William Howard Taft issued an order to add an emblem to the flag flown by ships from the one flown on land at customs houses.
Initially called " Censure and Move On ," it invited visitors to add their names to an online petition stating that " Congress must Immediately Censure President Clinton and Move On to pressing issues facing the country.
In January 1974 President Richard M. Nixon approved NSDM-242, intended to add more " limited employment options " to help manage escalation, to SIOP-63.
The former President of Harvard, Charles W. Eliot declined election to the Academy " because he was already in so many societies that he didn't want to add to the number.
Image editing software was used to add the actors ' images to photographs with President Bush.
In War Department General Orders No. 52 of 1922, the United States announced the award of the Medal of Honor to the Belgian unknown soldier: " By virtue of the authority vested by law in the President of the United States, the Congressional Medal of Honor, emblem of the highest military ideals and virtues, is bestowed in the name of the Congress of the United States upon the unknown, unidentified Belgian soldier in a desire to add all that is possible to the imperishable glory won by the soldiers of Belgium who fought as comrades of the American soldiers during the World War, and to commemorate with them the deeds of the nations associated with the United States of America, by paying this tribute to their unknown dead.
War Department General Orders No. 22 of June 6, 1923 announced the award of the Medal of Honor to the Romanian unknown soldier: " By virtue of the authority vested by law in the President of the United States, the Congressional Medal of Honor, emblem of the highest military ideals and virtues, is bestowed in the name of the Congress of the United States upon the unknown, unidentified Rumanian soldier in a desire to add all that is possible to the imperishable glory won by the soldiers of Rumania who fought as comrades of the American soldiers during the World War, and to commemorate with them the deeds of the nations associated with the United States of America, by paying this tribute to their unknown dead.
With Church President Kimball and second counselor Marion G. Romney also ailing, the decision was made to add Gordon B. Hinckley as an additional counselor to the First Presidency on July 23, 1981.
In his report on the 1955-56 academic year, Yale President A. Whitney Griswold announced his intention to add at least one residential college to Yale's two-decade-old system.
In his report on the year 1955-6, Yale President A. Whitney Griswold announced his intention to add at least one more residential college to the system Yale had launched only two decades earlier.

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