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...Adopted (176-to-129) a resolution by Missouri's Shannon to investigate "Government competition with private enterprise" in the form of sales of merchandise at Army posts and elsewhere; viewed as exhibits a pair of women's pink silk pyjamas purchased at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. and an array of gin, rum. corn and rye flavoring extracts bought at a Government store in Washington...
When the Diocese of New York chose a high churchman to be bishop eleven years ago many a low church Episcopalian was annoyed, including one of the Cathedral's most regular worshippers, an elderly, strong-willed lady named Laura Shannon. But Very Rev. Howard Chandler Robbins remained as dean, and so when Miss Shannon made her will in 1924 she left the Cathedral $937,500. Then dissension arose at St. John's, culminating in the resignation three years ago of Dean Robbins (TIME, Jan. 14 & Nov. 4, 1929). Last week when Miss Shannon's will was read...
...seems unlikely that Mrs. Cash and her brother intended a fraud, or that Col. Shannon believed personally that there was a fraud, and in fact the court did not find a fraud. But Col. Shannon was fellow counsel in a case in which the procedure was a charge of a legal fraud. Col. Cash took this and the evidence adduced as an insult against his wife and he and his brother-in-law each issued a challenge to both lawyers. Neither accepted...
Just before this time Mrs. Cash had died saying, "I can live above such imputations." Then Col. Cash's son published the famed circular "Camden Soliloquies," jingling at Shannon: "My daddy was a gin-maker." Shannon then wrote: scurrilous, vulgar. libelous, false and dirty language." Cash replied : . . . I have with great reluctance come to the settled conclusion that you are the unmitigated scoundrel you have been represented...
...Shannon's second was next to communicate with Cash and the two men met at 1 p m at Dubois' Bridge, Darlington County, S. C. When Shannon saluted Cash, the latter was looking at his wife's photograph and did not see or return the salute. At the count of one, Shannon fired and Cash felt a hot blow on his cheek—the sand kicked up by Shannon's bullet. At the count of two, Cash fired, saw a white spot against Shannon's black coat precisely where he had aimed, but Shannon stood firm...