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...Bishop had juggled his accounts beyond all senatorial comprehension and then successfully defied the Committee's demand for an explanation under the Corrupt Practices Act. What Investigator Manly was principally trying to trace through a jungle of bank trans actions was $65,300 contributed by Edwin Cornell Jameson, New York insurance man (TIME, April 28, 1930 et seq.). Of this sum Bishop Cannon had failed to account to Congress for $48,300. Last week the Senate Committee, chairmanned by North Dakota's young, belligerent Nye, met to receive a report from Mr. Manly and hear other witnesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Bishop's Bank Books | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

Among the Cannon accounts money was switched back & forth, apparently, according to Investigator Manly, for no other reason than to jumble the identity of contributions and block investigation. The 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Bishop's Bank Books | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...onetime Republican Senator from New Jersey, sent Bishop Cannon a $10,000 contribution, in cashier's checks bought for cash. No record could be found of a report to Congress of this campaign expenditure by Bishop Cannon or Mr. Frelinghuysen. The latter is a director of "Fat Cat" Jameson's insurance company. ¶ Claudius Hart Huston, Tennessee Hooverite who later became Republican National Committee Chairman, donated $5,000 to Bishop Cannon's Anti-Smith fund which also was not reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Bishop's Bank Books | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...Composer Richard and Capitalist Harris Hammond; of inflammation of the brain; in Washington. Friend of royalty, diplomatic hostess (her husband was U. S. Special Ambassador to the coronation of King George V in 1911), she was with Engineer Hammond in South Africa. She fought for his freedom when, after Jameson's Raid, he was condemned to death by President Paul Kruger of the South African Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 29, 1931 | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

Violincello: R. U. Jameson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSICAL CLUB TO PLAY THIS EVENING AT PAINE | 5/22/1931 | See Source »

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