Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gasoline tax, and for reorganization of the governmental machinery. So vigorously has Governor Byrd carried on these beginnings that a contemplated bond issue has been avoided and Virginia has been said to have a "Mussolini." In supporting the Smith candidacy against the assault of Bishop James Cannon Jr. and Virginia's dry bourgeoisie, he has demanded a vote of confidence in the Byrd record...
...addition to the above there have, of course, been innumerable campaign speeches from individuals such as Manhattan's Straton and Virginia's Bishop Cannon...
...Professor S. E. Morison '08. Harvard alumni have also commented extensively on the article, "Customs and Manners at Harvard," by W. I. Nichols '26. The article on late educational developments in the University by Dean Banford is being reprinted in educational journals. President Lowell, W. J. Bingham '16, Henry Cannon Clark '11, and Le Baron Russell Briggs '75 and R. A. Stout '29 are other contributors...
...represent the U. S. as "observers" at the International Telegraph Conference next month in Brussels, the President appointed Charles Henry Shedd of Chicago (Swift & Company), Vice President John Goldhammer of the Commercial Cable Co., Manhattan) and U. S. Minister to Sweden Leland Harrison. ¶The President went to Cannon Falls, Minn., and delivered a dedicatory speech at a monument to the late Col. William Colvill, leader of the charge at Gettysburg in which the First Minnesota Volunteers lost 215 of their 262 men. "In all the history of warfare," the President said, "this charge has few, if any, equals...
...Asheville conference was held just the same. Some 300 Dry, determined clergy and laymen attended. Bishop Cannon's colleague, Baptist Barton, a solid, ruddy gentleman, took the chair after Bishop Cannon had called the audience to order. It was announced that the conferees were to be officially known as "Anti-Smith Democrats." Republicans were not invited. The speech-making pictured Nominee Smith as a diabolical visitation upon the Democracy, of which it must and would be purged. The Anti-Smith Democrats promised to swing North Carolina and Florida out of the Solid South for Nominee Hoover. They predicted...