Word: cannoneer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twice in the past five months has Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South withstood the bombardment of public investigation of his widespread activities?once by the Methodist General Conference (TIME, May 26 et seq.) and once by a Senate committee (TIME, April 28 et seq.). Neither inquisition seemed to injure the Bishop's position or prestige within his church...
Although the text of the charges was not made public, it was understood that not only would Bishop Cannon's political and financial operations be reviewed, but also his private life. Following the death of his first wife in 1928, he married in London a Mrs. Helen Hawley McCallum of Manhattan (TIME, July 28), who had traveled with him as his secretary last year on the trip to the Holy Land awarded him by the Christian Herald for "distinguished religious service...
...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 Should two-thirds of the committee find that the unpublished accusations have sufficient basis to require explanation, they will immediately refer the matter to the next General Conference, suspend Bishop Cannon until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...
...said, in case his father's address bored him"; 4) "Helen Taft [Mrs. Frederick J. Manning, dean of Bryn Mawr] is a nice girl and very intelligent without being a prude"; 5) "When the music began the President began to waltz around the room by himself. . . . Uncle Joe [Cannon], though he knew no waltz steps, simply capered around in a sort of ragtime shuffle"; 6) the first cigaret smoked by a U. S. woman (Mrs. Nicholas Longworth) at the White House (Jan. 12, 1910); 7) the whiskey-and-sodas President Taft would press upon amiable guests...
...Barbados, on the Mackenzie, in India, Egypt, South Africa, wherever British warships or British troops were stationed, crowds cheered while cannon banged a 41-gun salute. Observers had expected some such Empire jubilation for the birth of a boy who would have been third in direct line for the throne, but not for a girl, who stands a poor fourth in line.? whose chance of becoming Queen depends on the deaths of King George, the Prince of Wales (unmarried), the Duke of York, Princess Elizabeth...