Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saints on earth?Heber Jedediah Grant, 78, stubble-bearded President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. With him sat his trusty First Counselor, pudding-jowled Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., one-time U. S. Ambassador to Mexico; his potent Presiding Bishop, rangy Sylvester Q. Cannon; his Eastern representative, Don Byron Colton, longtime U. S. Representative from Utah...
...most interest to New York Mormons last week was the presence of their Prophet, Seer & Revelator, who resembles the late "Uncle Joe" Cannon, and talks in the homely, crackling manner of a country storekeeper. President Grant told his listeners how, 52 years ago when he first held Mormon office, the Church had but 1,300 followers outside Utah (at present it has 100,000). He spoke of his troubles as a missionary in England, where he could not get a word in the newspapers to refute the abuse heaped on his faith. "Today," said he, "we are treated splendidly...
...Sidetracked, at the behest of Bishop James Cannon Jr., a liberal committee report on the liquor traffic, declared itself instead "unalterably opposed" to that traffic...
...patronesses for the Freshman Dance, which is the last event of the 1938 social season until the Jubilee in spring, are: Mrs. Walter B. Cannon, Mrs. Henry Chauncey, Mrs. A. Chester Hanford, Mrs. William E. Hocking, Mrs. Arthur N. Holcombe, Mrs. Delmar Leighton, Mrs. Roger B. Merriman, Mrs. James B. Munn, and Miss Rose Sherman...
While no official pronouncement is forthcoming as yet concerning his successor. Walter B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology, Hans Zinsser, professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, and John Homans '99, assistant professor of Surgery, have been mentioned as possible successors...