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...House Georgia's Crisp proposed annihilating the Farm Board. Alabama's Almon would grant veterans 100% loans on their bonus certificates. Massachusetts' Tinkham wanted a Washington Hall of Fame and New York's Celler, a Negro industrial commission. Georgia's Vinson would build the Navy up by $760,000,000 to full treaty limits. New York's Bacon proposed bus and truck regulation by the I. C. C. Wet bills, including a constitutional amendment by Connecticut's Tilson to return liquor control to the States, glutted both houses. Texas' Blanton touched...
...that authentic? Oh, isn't it just grand! Mr. Tinkham will be so pleased!" The female secretary of black-bearded Representative George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts, longtime political enemy of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, almost jumped for joy. For Bishop Cannon had just been indicted, with Miss Ada L. Burroughs, bespectacled treasurer of the Virginia Anti-Smith Committee in 1928, both charged with violations of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act. It was the same charge that Representative Tinkham had made last year; but Bishop Cannon had defied the Caraway Lobby Investigating Committee...
...hear other witnesses. The Bishop was abroad, visiting Paris and London. He cabled a protest to the com mittee in which he claimed the inquiry was "a purely personal attack by a vindictive Virginia Democrat [Senator Carter Glass] and a Boston Representative under Roman Catholic domination [George Holden Tinkham].*" He declared his campaign activities were for Presidential electors who, he claimed, were State officers and thus beyond Congressional jurisdiction. Overruling all objections, Senator Nye called on Mr. Manly to reveal his findings. A large chart was set up on which Investigator Manly had attempted to depict all the Cannon bank...
...Bishop Cannon has brought a $500,000 libel suit against Congressman Tinkham. Also awaiting trial are the Bishop's $6,000,000 libel actions against the Hearst newspapers and their publisher as a result of stories about his second marriage...
...Marshal has never been able to serve Publisher Hearst in either of the Washington suits.) Also last week Bishop Cannon sued Publisher Julius David Stern's Philadelphia Record but stated neither grounds nor damages. Also pending is a $500,000 libel suit against Congressman George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts, who called the Bishop a "shameless violator of the Federal corrupt practices...