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Bishop Cannon maintained eight bank accounts, personal and political, in five banks in Washington, D. C., Richmond. Crewe and Blackstone, Va. Through these during the campaign passed deposits of $276,637. He signed the checks "James Cannon Jr.," "James Cannon Jr., Chairman," "James Cannon Jr., executor." When a Washington bank got finnicky about check endorsements, Bishop Cannon retorted: "As the Master said when he was asked to pay tribute to Caesar, 'Go and catch a fish and take the gold coin out of the fish's mouth and pay the tribute...
...Bishop would make a political deposit and straightway transfer it to his personal account. Of the Jameson contribution only $22,544 could be definitely traced through the Cannon accounts to the Anti-Smith Democrats of Virginia. "Unaccounted for" was $17,895 in a Washington political account. The Bishop as executor opened a special account for the estate of a woman long dead and then used it as a political depository. Another of his accounts was for a business concern whose charter had been revoked seven years before. From a political account a $528 personal note was paid...
...late Ambassador to Spain Alexander Pollock Moore: to obtain a re-accounting of her mother's estate and to withhold distribution of the Ambassador's $600,000 estate. Charge (upheld in Pittsburgh Orphans' Court): that Ambassador Moore had "fraudulently acquired assets of his wife's estate while acting as executor thereof." Mrs. Calvit's claim to one-half the Moore estate, under an alleged pre-nuptial agreement between her mother and stepfather, will be adjudged after the estate has been accounted...
With most of his friends, Oscar Wilde in particular, Parson Will was more gentle. Sympathetically he reports Oscar's attempts to reform after his release from jail; the loyalty of his great friend and literary executor, Robert ("Robbie") Ross; Wilde's gratitude at the public reception of The Ballad of Reading Gaol...
...Yale team as it played Saturday is far superior to any eleven that Harvard has shown so far this year both offensively and defensively. On the attack Yale has the edge merely because of Booth, who is spark, guiding hand, and the executor of the Eli offensive--in fact, he is the offense. Without him it is hard to determine just how the Blue would stack up, since most of the other backs, with the possible exception of Crowley, would rank no higher individually than any that Harvard can offer. But with Booth playing the whole game...