Word: cannoneer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coca-Cola family, received newshawks one night last week in his oldtime white cotton nightgown. Would the conference elect five new bishops? Or for economy's sake would it leave their posts vacant? And would it, as some delegates desired, create a new vacancy by retiring Bishop James Cannon Jr. who had arrived triumphantly in Jackson from Washington where a court had acquitted him of corrupt political practices week before...
...addition to the men who were elected to the Academy this year the following officers were chosen from Harvard faculty members: President, George Howard Parker, Professor of Zoology and Director of the Zoological Laboratory; Vice-President for Class II, Walter Bradford Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology; Vice-President for Class III, Edwin Francis Gay, professor of Economic History; Vice-President for Class IV, Arthur Stanley pease '02, professor of Latin and Walter Channing Cabot Fellow; Recording Secretary, Walter Eugene Clark '03, Wales Professor of Sanskrit and editor of the Harvard Oriental Series...
Thus last week ended the three-week trial of Bishop Cannon and Ada L. Burroughs, on charges of violating the Federal Corrupt Practices Act (TIME, April 23). The Government had claimed that, whereas Bishop Cannon and Secretary Burroughs had reported only $17,300 expenditures in the Bishop's 1928 campaign against Wet Presidential Candidate Al Smith, one contribution alone from Hooverite Edwin C. Jameson had amounted to $65,300. These and other funds, the Government alleged, had been used in Virginia and all over the South. "Bishop Cannon was shooting a double-barreled gun with a single trigger," declared...
Meeting in Jackson, Miss. last week was the quadrennial general conference of his Church which four years ago had acquitted the Bishop on the same charges. Before boarding a Washington train to carry him to that conference Bishop Cannon piously wired ahead...
Died. Henry White Cannon, 83, onetime president of Chase National Bank, comptroller of Currency under President Arthur; after a brief illness; in Daytona Beach, Fla. He was a onetime associate of "Empire-Builder" James Jerome Hill, a sponsor of Rear Admiral Peary's expedition to the North Pole...