Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final Milan speech of the week (to cheering War veterans) Benito Mussolini clawed his French critics tooth & nail, flayed the Paris newspapers which objected to the speech fortnight ago in which Il Duce cried, "though words are beautiful things, muskets, machine guns, ships, airplanes and cannon are much more beautiful things!" (TIME...
...Dallas Conference the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, last week exculpated Bishop James Cannon Jr. of Virginia after quizzing him on a charge of gambling in the stock market (TIME, May 26). The scene grew emotional...
...Bishop Cannon sat on the platform with the other dozen Bishops. Against his chair leaned his crutch (he was injured recently in a motor accident). Few people in the audience could see beneath his bowed grey head, his haggard face. Feelings in the audience were mixed. There were those who resented the Bishop's political apostasy in the last presidential campaign (he a Democrat campaigned for Hoover, to defeat Smith, the Wet). There were those who despised him for "gambling" through a bucket shop, those who revered him for his skillful, devious, successful fight for Prohibition laws, those...
...committee on episcopacy made its report. Bishop Cannon had played the stock market. But he was sorry. Therefore the committee would not force him to endure a church trial. Bishop Cannon clumped with his crutch to the platform's front, wept, confessed again: "I did make a mistake. I sincerely regret that mistake, especially since I have learned that my actions have wounded many Godly ministers and laymen of the beloved Church to which I have given my life...
...gentle rain from Heaven alike upon erring Bishop and erring Congoan.* ... It is the preaching of Methodists that confession of sin, followed by repentance and promise to sin no more, should meet with clemency and forgiveness. It was this attitude and this alone that stayed the trial of Bishop Cannon. Many laymen did not share the feeling of the preachers, because the statement of repentance and pledge to reform did not come until after a trial had been ordered. They doubted the belated penitence was genuine...