Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June 16, a stock Franklin Sedan driven by Cannon Ball Baker, completed the fastest round-trip ever made by automobile or train between Los Angeles and New York, covering 6,692 miles in 6¼ days. ... On the trip east the time was 74 hours flat. ... On the return trip, the total time was 83 hours and 23 minutes...
...Governor Smith take the lead against the Hoover re-election of 1932. Albert S. Burleson of Texas, Wilsonian Postmaster General, said: "Apparently the teachings of Jefferson, Jackson and Wilson have been forgotten by the Southern people." But he was drowned out by a chorus of other voices. Bishop James Cannon Jr., hero of the anti-Smith crusade in Virginia, asked for the resignation of National Chairman Raskob. So did-Georgia's W. D. ("Praying Willie") Upshaw. So did the Georgian (Atlanta), the Observer (Charlotte, N. C.), the Winston-Salem Journal, the Mobile Register, Senators Simmons and Heflin, Governor Moody...
Superintendent McBride, Mrs. Willebrandt, Billy Sunday, Bishop Cannon, The Fellowship Forum, "Wizard" Evans, Senator Heflin, William Allen White, Mrs. Boole...
Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist-Episcopal Church. South, Hoover-Democrat, continued his fight with Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. During a speech at Bristol. Va.. he strayed from his main theme. Prohibition, to declare that Negroes employed by Tammany have white stenographers...
...About 40 years old, I should say." replied Bishop Cannon...