Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signed) JAMES CANNON...
...dressed in the black cloth of the clergy. Undoubtedly newsphotographers will snap his picture, reporters take down his parting words. In one of his suitcases will be a parchment scroll hailing him as the most significant U. S. contributor to religious progress for 1928. He is Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South...
...scroll has not yet been prepared. But it will be ready by Feb. 13, and then Bishop Cannon will receive it at a Manhattan dinner in his honor. It will be written by Editor Stanley Hoflund High of the Christian Herald, Protestant interdenominational weekly, circulation circa...
Editor High has hinted what the scroll will say. "It is not only because of Bishop Cannon's leadership but also because of the unselfishness of his leadership that the Christian Herald chose him for this honor. The wet interests reviled him. The wet press made him the brunt of its caricatures. But he never flinched...
...course, Editor High referred to the acerbities which have greeted Bishop Cannon's militant Anti-Saloon League activities (see p. 12) and his leadership of the bitter anti-Smith campaign among Southern Democrats...