Word: methodistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born: In the Methodist parsonage of Lynchburg...
Second: Bishop James Cannon Jr. did not head the delegation but attended as President of the Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South...
...Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals: "Not . . . revolutionary. . . . Prohibitionists have never believed it is desirable to set up a national police force . . . for the sole purpose of enforcement. . . . Unfortunate word 'modification' . . . interpretation ... to imply that state laws may be enacted which in fact legalize alcoholic content in beverages prohibited by the Federal Constitution, we believe an entirely mistaken...
James Cannon Jr., militant dry, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was lately revealed to have had extensive stock transactions with a bankrupt Manhattan bucketshop (TIME, July 1). Cannon critics questioned whether such dealings were worthy of a Churchman...
...began from another side. The New York World, famed capital wetpaper, detailed the following history, calculated further to embarrass Bishop Cannon: In 1917 (just before the Food Administration Law went into effect) Bishop Cannon bought 650 barrels of flour in the name of Blackstone College for girls, a Virginia Methodist College of which he was president. The purchase was brought to the attention of Food Administrator Herbert Hoover who referred the matter to Roland William Boyden, Chief Food Administration enforcement officer...