Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Chief Justice Richard Cannon Watts of South Carolina, 77; at Laurens...
...politics, two women and the stock-market have been among the vital interests of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. All of his brethren deplored his gambling in stocks, and at the Dallas convention of his church last spring, he tearfully promised to gamble no more, was forgiven (TIME, May 26 et seq.). But four of his brethren in the South still deplored his conduct in general, which they felt unfitted him for the service of God. While he was honeymooning in Brazil with the second of the two women who have been dear...
...variable stars, telegraphic information, star distances, photometry, and nebulae; Dr. W. J. Fisher, on astronomical notations and meteors; Professor W. H. Pickering, on planets and lunar names, Dr. W. J. Luyten '24, on star distances and statistics; Professor E. S. King, photometry and double stars; Dr. A. J. Cannon, variable stars and spectra; D. B. Pickering, variable stars; Dr. C. H. Payne, spectra; Professor H. H. Plasket, spectra...
...stockmarketeer may rightly be called a tycoon only when his operations directly and continuously affect the affairs of a great corporation. This rarely occurs. Bishop Cannon's operations are in no sense tycoonish...
...Westchester County. When he had accumulated an estate of 83,000 acres extending ten miles along the Hudson River north from the Croton River and "a day's journey" [20 mi.] eastward to the Connecticut line, he built himself a fort-like house of red sandstone, with loopholes, cannon em-brasures, 3-ft. walls. King William III of England bestowed upon him in 1697 full manorial privileges.* When he died in 1700, his large estate had been divided in his will among his four sons, seven daughters. The Van Cortlandt fort was changed into a manor house, where...