David A. Smith, First Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric, reported in General Conference in October 1934 on a trip made by the Tabernacle Choir a few weeks earlier. The Choir had gone to Chicago at the special request of Henry Ford – who paid their expenses – to sing at the Century of Progress Exposition – 40 years after the Choir had sung there in their first great venture out of the Rocky Mountains, singing at the Columbian World’s Fa...
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