Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Willingly into the Lobby Investigating Committee room, where some of the Senate's loudest lions roar, a quiet-appearing Daniel last week limped on one crutch, wearing a blue sack suit and old-fashioned "Congress gaiters," peering through rim less glasses. He was Bishop James Cannon Jr., Chairman of the Board of Temperance & Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, a man of political prominence whose spiritual loins were somewhat ungirded last month when his church's convention required him to ex press contrition or stand trial for ''bucket shop" gambling (TIME...
Many a young member of Congress, serving on the Committee on Lighthouses or whatnot, is known only as a Representative, finds in his office his major reputation. Given sufficient ability and re-elections, however, and he may rise to the finance committee, may become a Reed, a Cannon, a Longworth. As with representatives of the People, so with representatives of the Utilities. The head of a small light & power company is a Utility Man, but his name and influence may extend no farther than his city limits. As time passes, however, he may acquire membership on more and more important...
Later the conference re-elected Bishop Cannon, despite considerable animadversion, to the board of Temperance and Social Service. Commented Josephus Daniels: "... A death blow to Prohibition...
Commented Dr. Alexander Copeland Millar, editor of the Arkansas Methodist and, like Bishop Cannon a Hoover Democrat : "We cannot go back on the greatest Prohibition leader in the world, for if we did, the devils in Hell would shout with lee and the angels in Heaven would weep...
While this was going on Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of Arkansas, chairman of the Senate lobby committee, sent Bishop Cannon an impatient telegram to appear this week before the committee. He must explain, among other things, where he got the money for his stock market operations...