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Last week, while he was engaged upon church work and a honeymoon in Brazil, came news that a third, more elaborate Cannonade was being prepared. Four traveling elders of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South had sent recommendations to Bishop William Newman Ainsworth, chairman of the College of Bishops, that their colleague be put on the mat once more...
Upon receipt of the charges filed by the traveling elders, it becomes the duty of Bishop Ainsworth to assemble a committee of not less than twelve traveling elders. Should two-thirds of the committee find that the unpublished accusations have sufficient basis to require explanation, they will immediately refer the matter to the next General Conference, suspend Bishop Cannon until the conference convenes. That will...
...Georgia, Bishop W. N. Ainsworth, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, deaf to the bellowings of his diocesans, spoke out in defense of the De Priest affair: "There is no more justification for the exclusion of a black man and his wife from such a function than there is to exclude a red, yellow, brown or white one. The President and his wife do not select any of them; the constituency does. It is about time for everybody to quit seeing black only...
...Pancake had wished to be extraordinarily cunning, excessively sly, he might have written to the American Code Co., 206 Broadway, Manhattan, commissioning Master Codist Frederick Ainsworth Hall to prepare a private code for Pancake messages. Codist Hall, secretary to Lord Roberts during the Boer War, onetime (1919-21) expert for Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd., would have devised a code similar in size to the Commercial Cable Code, charge about $1,000 for 1,000 copies...
Included among recent additions to the Everyman's Library (E. P. Dutton and Co., New York, 1928), are W. Harrison Ainsworth's famous novel of the perfect servant. The Admirable Crichton, lately immortalized by the movies: The Life and Letters of John Keats edited by Lord Boughton: The Brothers Karamazov (2 vols.) Thedor Dostoevsky, generally conceded a place as one of the greatest works of the age: The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan...