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Traveling second class as "Dr. and Mrs. James G. Cannon Jr. of Sao Paulo, Brazil'' Bishop James Cannon Jr. of Blackstone. Va., and his big blonde bride arrived at Manhattan from Sao Paulo last week. News reporters and photographers greeted them. Bishop Cannon: "I am an American citizen and don't wish to be harassed." Mrs. Cannon emerging from hiding in the freight hold screamed hysterically: "I suppose they [the reporters] think this is swell...
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 Should two-thirds of the committee find that the unpublished accusations have sufficient basis to require explanation, they will immediately refer the matter to the next General Conference, suspend Bishop Cannon until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...
...Bishop Cannon last week cut short his honeymoon and episcopal work in Brazil, secretly embarked...