Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conservative Wall Street brokers last week were flabbergasted by a spirited defense of stock trading which, to many, signified a major sociological shift. Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who could speak for a vast rural constituency, had declared stock trading on thin margin was not gambling, was therefore not immoral. One reason for his vigorous declaration in behalf of Wall Street stock business was that he himself had been caught playing the market through a bucket-shop firm, now closed...
...Declared Bishop Cannon: "I had been brought up with the general idea of country and small town people that all trading in Wall Street stocks was gambling...
Called in to investigate: Honorary Police Commissioner of Bradley Beach, Willard Huntington Wright (S. S. Van Dine), creator of super-detective "Philo Vance" (The Greene Murder Case, The Bishop Murder Case...
...appearance, were amused as they recognized the drawl of the south, the slur of the west. Ranging in age from 15 to 21, the boys had come from all classes, from farms, towns, cities. There was the son of the Czecho-Slovakian consul at Pittsburgh, the son of a bishop, a boy brought up in an orphanage. Rather stiffly they sat there in the hot sun, looking with awe at the judges who sat facing them solemnly, and who, by whispers, were soon identified as Thomas Alva Edison himself, Henry Ford, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Dr. Lewis Perry, headmaster of Philips...
...waiting, the Committee which had judged the papers until 3 a. m., called in five boys for a brief chat that seemed to have no significance. Actually, it was to decide by personal impression the outcome of a practical tie. To Wilbur Brotherton Huston, 16, son of the Episcopal Bishop of Olympia (Wash.), went the award that meant four years full scholarship at any institution he will choose. So pleased was Inventor Edison with his test's success that additional prizes were given, going to "Connecticut," "Pennsylvania," "New Mexico," "Indiana," and consisting of four years' tuition at any college...