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Bound for the International Anti-Alcohol Congress in London, Bishop James Cannon Jr. docked at Plymouth, declared one bottle of whiskey. "For demonstration purposes only." he explained...
...onetime Cossack trooper, riding as King of Kings in a limousine upholstered in champagne-colored silk with gold and jeweled Persian crowns in bas-relief upon each door. Turkish artillery honored His Majesty at the frontier with a salute from enlightened President Mustafa Kemal Pasha's best European cannon...
...bird's. Next week the president was to hand their own class president Arthur Stephen ("Princeton's Best") Lane, the key to the university. Then Senior Lane would lead his 450 classmates behind Nassau Hall where, puffing long-stemmed clay pipes to be smashed on the Princeton cannon when the ceremonies were over, they would hear his presidential address and the class history...
Three months ago in Washington. Wisconsin's Representative Raymond J. Cannon bumped a taxi. Out of the taxi stepped three members of the New York Stock Exchange: its onetime President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons, with an injured shoulder; its Governor Herbert G. Wellington, with a cut lip; its Vice President Allen Ledyard Lindley, badly shaken. Total damage, as estimated by Bumper Cannon: "Trivial." Last week damage suits were filed against Bumper Cannon charging negligent driving. Total damage, as estimated by Messrs. Simmons, Wellington & Lindley...
Died. Mrs. Ella Cannon Hill Hogan Flinn, 25, granddaughter of the late J. WT. Cannon (cotton) and cousin of Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith; after a fall from a penthouse balcony while watching her husband, Emory Flinn. Curtiss-Wright Corp. employe, take a photograph of her one-month-old son; in Manhattan...