Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...essentially a religious organization. Mr. McBride is a minister who, after education at Muskingum College, had several obscure pastorates before beginning his unsensational rise in the League's service. There are other anti-salooning ministers more powerful than he. Principally there are two Methodist Bishops ? Nicholson of Detroit, Cannon of Virginia...
...James Cannon Jr., many years ago, pinned upon his mother's breast her only jewel (the white emblem of Prohibition) and laid her to rest and dedicated his life to her battle against alcohol. No mean gen eral, he could fight on two fronts, upward in the church, onward against politicians. Both battles culminated last year in un qualified personal victory. In politics, he undermined the Byrd better-government organization in Virginia, which endorsed the Wet Smith, and put the State in the Republican columns. For this activity he was declared last week to be the man who had done...
...Bishop Cannon who pounced upon Secretary Mellon's letter, and with a tone of authority which electricity clearly recorded, despatched a long telegram, in part as follows: "Hon. Morris Sheppard, Senate Chamber...
...following article was written expressly for the Crimson by Dr. Annie J. Cannon, Curator of Astronomical Photographs at the Harvard Observatory, where there is the largest and most valuable collection of astronomical photographs in the world. Dr. Cannon is recognized as the most eminent woman astronomer, and is the author of the Henry Draper Catalogue of Stellar Spectra, in which a quarter of a million stars are classified...
...Cannon has been conducting a series of investigations since 1896, concerned with the natural defenses of the body against bacteria, mechanical disturbances, and against thermal and chemical changes in environment. He has paid particular attention, in his research to the best regulation of the body, and the coagulation and sugar content of the blood...