Word: prohibishop
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...swung into action. A fighter who preferred defeat to compromise, he wished his fellow Virginian ousted. He got the committee to vote (43-to-28) to retire Bishop Cannon for "ill health" - only grounds permissible under church discipline. But the conference, after two hours of debate in which the "Prohibishop" was pictured as a martyr to the machinations of the Wet Press and the Roman Catholic Church or as a man ''infirm" because of his "love of money and love of power," voted its confidence...
...While he was honeymooning in Brazil with the second of the two women who have been dear to him, these Southerners instituted an inquiry by a court of elders to see if Bishop Cannon should be unfrocked (TIME, Sept. 29). Because of his conspicuous activity in public affairs ("The Prohibishop" is the Philadelphia Record's nickname for him) and because of his repeated private appearances in the news, the Press of the land has watched his career closely. Knowing well that a clergyman whose morals have been called in question is one of the most dangerous news creatures there...
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