Word: cannon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, politician, prohibitor, stock speculator, lent moral but not financial support to his son Richard M. Cannon, on trial at Montrose, Calif., for failing to pay his teachers and for maintaining unsanitary conditions at his school ("Cannon Military Academy"). Enraged at being newsphoto-graphed outside the courthouse. Bishop Cannon grappled with cameramen, crying, "What right have you to take my picture...
Last year the Christian Herald Association, publishers of the Christian Herald, instituted an annual award for "distinguished religious service." The prize: A trip to the Holy Land. First distinguished religious server was Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South (TIME...
Announcement of holders of travelling fellowships and scholarships of the Harvard School of Architecture has been made by G. H. Edgell '09, dean of the school. The Nelson Robinson Jr. Travelling Fellowship in Architecture, established for 18 months of travel and study, has been granted to J. L. Cannon '26. The Julia Amory Appleton Travelling Fellowships in Architecture, also for a year and a half of peripatetic study, are held by C. O. Root and C. T. Larson '25. One of the travelling fellowships from the Frederick Sheldon Fund, which was established for a student of promise in any school...
...Navy building office labelled "Assistant Secretary of War" strode a tall, straight, handsome man from Tulsa, Okla. Briskly he paced a hundred feet along the stone-flagged corridor, turned sharply into another office labelled "Secretary of War." There, surrounded by flowers, furled flags, miniature airplanes, trench equipment, antique cannon and the portraits of former War Secretaries, many hands wrung his, many voices babbled congratulations...
...Champs Élysees, paused for an instant to pile flowers on the Unknown Soldier's grave in tribute. Leading the parade were President Doumergue. Prime Minister André Tardieu. Foreign Minister Briand, Marshal Pétain, and one-armed General Gouraud. Just at eleven o'clock a cannon boomed, while all the crowd stood for a motionless minute. There were neither speeches nor prayers for Atheist Georges Clémenceau...