Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that authentic? Oh, isn't it just grand! Mr. Tinkham will be so pleased!" The female secretary of black-bearded Representative George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts, longtime political enemy of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, almost jumped for joy. For Bishop Cannon had just been indicted, with Miss Ada L. Burroughs, bespectacled treasurer of the Virginia Anti-Smith Committee in 1928, both charged with violations of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act. It was the same charge that Representative Tinkham had made last year; but Bishop Cannon had defied the Caraway Lobby Investigating Committee...
...United States." Nevertheless, officers of the Legion, feeling particularly insulted by the expression "staggering drunks," roared at Dr. Wilson. Besides attacking the American Legion in Kansas City, Dr. Wilson took pot shots at the late Dwight Whitney Morrow, John Jacob Raskob and Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick. Defending Bishop James Cannon Jr., he said: "He saved $3,000 and placed it in a savings bank where it was drawing 3% interest when Wall Street men of Jewish persuasion argued him into investing it where they said he could get 10%. He was guilty only of being foolish. The attacks...
...celebration of Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon's twenty-five years as George Higginson professor of physiology in Harvard University, the afternoon and evening have been set aside for exercises befitting the occasion, at the Amphitheater, Building C, Harvard Medical School, at 4 o'clock with Dr. David L. Edsall presiding. Papers will be given by Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, of the Mayo Clinic, on "Influence of Dr. Cannon's Work upon Medical Thought and Progress" and by Dr. William H. Howell, of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene, on "The Development of Physiology during the Past Twenty-five Years...
...dinner will be given at the Vanderbilt Hall Gymnasium, at which President Lowell will preside, Dr. Graham Lusk, professor of physiology of the School of Medicine of Cornell University, will speak on "The Life of a Professor." The presentation to the medical school of the portrait of Dr. Cannon will then take place. Members of the committee in charge are: Dr. Henry A. Christian, chairnfan, Dr. Harvey Cushing. Dr. Alexander Forbes, Dr. Alfred C. Redfield and Dr. Cecil K. Drinker...
...Laval to listen sympathetically when Mr. Hoover asks France to join in a worldwide economy program of lessened armaments. This, from the French point of view, is a "sacrifice of security" which few Frenchmen are prepared to make. But Belgium, less militaristic than France, is anxious to economize on cannon...