Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never flinched. . . ." We are wondering if James Cannon Jr. of the M. E. Church south shall blink when he sees the Holy Places in Palestine-all of them, if we remember rightly, in charge of Roman Catholic Franciscan monks. (And you know that rascal Al Smith believes the same as they do.) If Cannon Jr. would have a competent guide then must he seek a son of Francesco Bernardone...
Readers of the Christian Herald were not surprised to learn that their weekly had chosen to honor Bishop Cannon. The Christian Herald, too, trains its cannons against the wets. It prints High-and-dry editorials such as the following: "The Christian Herald is in this Prohibition fight to the finish. . . . The minds of America's younger generation need to be carried back to pre-Prohibition days to insure that they will understand the transformation which the Eighteenth Amendment has wrought." Editor High pays $5 to anyone who will write a brief authentic article revealing the degradation of drunkenness, the benison...
...view of the Christian Herald's and Bishop Cannon's joint distaste for liquor, there seemed no doubt but that Bishop Cannon had been honored more for his anti-Prohibitionism than for his purely non-political Christian virtues and contributions...
...Bishop Cannon is the first to receive the Christian Herald's award, which hereafter will be annual. Since the Christian Herald is the largest Protestant weekly in the U. S. its award is a matter of no small moment. In time, Editor High and Chain-Store Tycoon James Cash Penney, who is president of the Christian Herald Association, Inc., hope to have their award rated as a sort of Nobel prize for religion. Unlike the Nobel prizes, however, Christian Herald awards will go to none but U. S. citizens...
...contiguity of Tycoon Penney and President-Elect Hoover, who chose the Penney mansion at Miami for his pre-inaugural retreat, added an emphasis to the Cannon award. It was perhaps circumstantial, perhaps significant, that a close and potent friend of Mr. Hoover's should regard Dry fervor as religious service...