Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House Week Work Done. The House of Representatives last week: ¶ Passed the Legislative Appropriation Bill, amended to provide a marble base for the Washington Statue of the late Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon. ¶ Accepted the conference report on a bill to finance Gold Star Mothers' pilgrimages (see p. 13). ¶ Adopted a resolution requiring canned products below a certain grade to be distinctively labeled...
...Jameson's contributions: $65,300 to Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, South; $30,000 to the Virginia State Republican Committee; $50,000 to the National Constitutional Democratic Committee (for anti-Smith work in Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri); $20,000 to the North Carolina Republican State Committee; $5,000 to the Indiana Republican Committee; $2,500 to the Republican National Committee. Explained Mr. Jameson: "I'm a great believer in the 18th Amendment...
...Since seed oysters, by law, can only be gathered from sunrise to sunset, and since the boats engaging in the act must be sail vessels, the annual stocking-up takes on the nature of a race. Last week promptly at 6 a. m. on May 1 a cannon resounded at Bivalve, and 500 sloops hurried down the two-mile stretch to the seed beds...
Perfidious Cannon? What really instigated the Lobby Committee's Prohibition investigation were the charges filed with it by Massachusetts Congressman George Holden Tinkham against the Anti-Saloon League, the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals and the political activities of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (TIME, April 7). Last week Representative Tinkham appeared before the committee, generalized about the "$67,565,312.72" the Anti-Saloon League had spent, vaguely deplored the failure of politico-religious campaigners to reveal their expenditures under the Corrupt Practice...
...specific charge Mr. Tinkham did make against Bishop Cannon. He developed the fact that according to a Senate investigation report in 1929 the largest single contributor to Herbert Hoover's campaign was Edwin Cornell Jameson of Manhattan who gave $172,000 to beat Democratic Nominee Smith. Mr. Jameson is president of Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co., a director of many another insurance company and bank, and of American Smelting & Refining Co. According to his report to the Senate, he contributed $65,300 to Bishop Cannon to wage his successful war against Nominee Smith in Virginia. When the Bishop...