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...Dallas general convention of the church he wept himself into official forgiveness for his stockmarket gambling (TIME, June 2). Two weeks later he told a U. S. Senate committee that his political lobby and market activities were none of the Senate's business and with the single crutch he was then using because of his arthritis, pried his way through a crowd which was watching for his senatorial flaying (TIME, June 16). His action defeated the Senate committee. It has not recalled him for quizzing...
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...
Senator Walsh, the Senate's most famed and feared inquisitor, warned him he was risking the fate of Oilman Harry Sinclair, who went to prison for contempt of the Senate. But the Bishop contended stub bornly, sometimes waving his crutch in anger, that this Committee had no authority to expose anyone's political activities. He read aloud Supreme Court utterances which, he said, denied all committees the right to make "fruitless inquiries into citizens' personal affairs." He protested: ''This appears to me to be an effort to attack me and to impair my influence exactly...
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...
...committee on episcopacy made its report. Bishop Cannon had played the stock market. But he was sorry. Therefore the committee would not force him to endure a church trial. Bishop Cannon clumped with his crutch to the platform's front, wept, confessed again: "I did make a mistake. I sincerely regret that mistake, especially since I have learned that my actions have wounded many Godly ministers and laymen of the beloved Church to which I have given my life...