Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Counts, The allegations in the indictment are based upon the receipt by Bishop Cannon, for his campaign in Virginia against Alfred Emanuel Smith, of $65,300 from Edwin Cornell Jameson, Manhattan insurance man (TIME, May 7, et ante). Federal statute requires that interState political contributions be filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Bishop Cannon revealed disposal of only $17,000 of Fat Cat Jameson's money. The remainder, he has insisted, is his own business...
Four counts in the indictment charge Miss Burroughs with willful failure to report the full amount, and Bishop Cannon with "aiding and abetting'' her, which if proved makes him equally guilty. Four counts charge mere technical, unwitting violations, implicating the Bishop in the same manner. The remaining two counts charge conspiracy "with divers other persons" to commit the (willful) felony and the (unwitting) misdemeanor...
Persecution. Bishop Cannon was in Atlanta at a church conference (see p. 22) when he heard of the indictment. No one was surprised to hear him say: "This is merely a plot to discredit me. a persecution by a Roman Catholic district attorney acting under orders of his priest.'' (The case had been turned over by Catholic District Attorney Rover to Protestant Assistant District Attorney John J. Wilson, who presented the evidence to the Grand Jury last month.) With bond set at $1.000 and the trial slated for some time before Jan. i, Bishop Cannon said...
Chief feature of the opening night was the appearance of Bishop James Cannon Jr., indicted that day by the Washington Grand Jury for violation of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act (see p. 15). Last month Bishop Cannon was snubbed by Bishop Edwin DuBose Mouzon who, presiding over a church conference at Roanoke, Va., did not invite Bishop Cannon to sit on the platform. Bishop Cannon complained, left the room unapplauded. In marked contrast last week, 2,000 people in Atlanta's Wesley Memorial Church applauded vigorously as Bishop Cannon, still suffering from arthritis ("aggravated," said he, "by the thrusts...
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Anne Cannon Reynolds, 21, daughter of Joe F. Cannon (towels) of Concord, N. C.; from Zachary Smith Reynolds, 19, son of the late Richard Joshua Reynolds (Camels); in Reno. Grounds: incompatibility. Two years ago the bride's father escorted the couple to York, S. C. at 2 a.m. one day to see them married. They soon separated. Lately Mr. Reynolds settled $1,000,000 on his wife and year-old child. Last week he flew her to Reno in his airplane, departed saying, "The whole trouble was I liked small parties, Mrs. Reynolds liked big parties...