Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bishop Cannon (vanishing): I am at my office whenever a subpoena is issued...
...Bishop Cannon (pushing out): That is in the record...
Some time prior the Committee had heard Lawyer Edwin Cornell Jameson, New York political giftmaker, testify that he had contributed $65,300 to Bishop Cannon's anti-Smith Presidential campaign in Virginia (May 19). While on its face nothing was wrong with this contribution, it was mostly in cash, and Wisconsin's Senator John James Elaine, Mon tana's Senator Thomas James Walsh, the only lobby lions present, apparently thought something pertinent to their investigation lay hid behind...
...Bishop Cannon rose in the middle of a heated debate, used his crutch as bumper against the crowding audience, stalked from the room. A shouted controversy accompanied his flight...
Senator Blaine, (hurriedly): Bishop Cannon, I desire to put into the record the telegrams and communications between you and the Chairman of the Committee so that it may indicate exactly how and why you came before the Committee. I want you to know that...