Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when he was barely 18, Smith Reynolds married Anne Cannon, daughter of a Concord, N. C. textile tycoon. In August 1930, they had a daughter. A year later young Smith Reynolds, who had studied aviation instead of going to college, flew his wife to Reno for her divorce...
...Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith came from a family which, in the industrial feudalism of the new South, occupied at Kannapolis, N. C. a position analogous to that of the Reynolds family at Winston-Salem. The Cannon textile mills were founded by James Cannon who started out as a clerk in a Concord, N. C. general store just after the Civil War. Old James Cannon had five sons, four of them given to jollity and excesses, one given to sober industry. He willed his textile mills to his sober youngest son. Charles A. Cannon proved the wisdom of this move...
...delivered by Dr. Menzel. Continuing on Friday nights, the subjects and talkers are as follows: "Touring the Planets," Leon Campbell, instructor in Astronomy; "The What and Why of Schooling Stars," Dr. P. M. Millman: "In Quest of Comets," Dr. F. L. Whipple: "Unravelling Stellar Secrets". Dr. A. J. Cannon: "The Insides of Stars". Dr. Payne: "The Worlds of Gas," Dr. R. J. Hok. Wilson Teaching Fellow: "The Chemistry of Interstellar Space." V. B. Andrews '2b instructor in Astronomy: and "The Chemistry of Evolution." Harlew Shapley. Patne Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the College Observatory. The last time that...
Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, thought beer legislation would be "a stab in the back for every other legitimate industry." Asked how he, if a Congressman, would balance his conscience against his constituents, he replied: "I'm not a balanced or reasoning man. I'm a fanatic. My conscience would never permit me to vote contrary to my convictions...
...passages. In their defense, Presbyterian Dr. William Oxley Thompson, president emeritus of Ohio State University, said: "Presbyterians practice birth control more than they practice anything else. In our universities there are thousands of young people who are discussing this important problem far more seriously than we. . . ." Methodist Bishop James Cannon Jr. objected to the phrase "and other qualified persons," declaring that only physicians should be allowed to give information and then only when directly consulted. In the end the first passage was stricken out, the second left in. Into the Federal Council's "social ideals creed" was inserted...