Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heard a report from the Senate judiciary sub-committee on lobbying relative to the testimony of Bishop James Cannon...
...Dallas meeting of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Bishop James Cannon Jr. confounded his critics and won his church's forgiveness by confessing and emotionally repenting his stock gambling with a Manhattan "bucket shop" since exterminated by the law (TIME, June 16 et ante). Last fortnight Bishop Cannon confounded the Senate Lobby Committee, which sought to learn about his handling of political campaign funds, by challenging its legal authority, marching out of the hearing. Both victories were parliamentary cleverness. But last week Bishop Cannon suffered a reverse on his moral front. The Senate committee returned to the subject...
...bishop changed his cable address for receiving brokers' reports while in South America from "Cannon Methodista" to "Cannon Western...
Rumors that Bucketeer Goldhurst had pleaded guilty to keep Bishop Cannon's name out of court, last week led Nebraska's Senator Norris, chairman of the Judiciary Committee who appointed the subcommittee on lobbying, to promise an investigation of a report that Goldhurst's sentence had been commuted to two yearn, and to find out "who is sponsoring appeals for clemency...
...ancient notion-a de-lusion-that, if a ship cannot escape a waterspout by moving out of its path, a shot fired into the column of water will cause it to collapse. Science has no record of this having actually been done, for the good reason that no cannon projectile (unless perhaps a large explosive shell timed exactly) would be big enough to disrupt the enormous vacuum which supports the water column...