Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Doctor feels that the term Tycoon has become obsolete, although there is evidence to indicate that such is not the case. However, the important thing is which title Bishop Cannon should more properly come under...
...stockmarketeer may rightly be called a tycoon only when his operations directly and continuously affect the affairs of a great corporation. This rarely occurs. Bishop Cannon's operations are in no sense tycoonish...
...Westchester County. When he had accumulated an estate of 83,000 acres extending ten miles along the Hudson River north from the Croton River and "a day's journey" [20 mi.] eastward to the Connecticut line, he built himself a fort-like house of red sandstone, with loopholes, cannon em-brasures, 3-ft. walls. King William III of England bestowed upon him in 1697 full manorial privileges.* When he died in 1700, his large estate had been divided in his will among his four sons, seven daughters. The Van Cortlandt fort was changed into a manor house, where...
...Among those who will serve as patronesses for the third annual dance, held this year on October 24, are Mrs. Bliss Perry, Mrs. Edward Burlingame Hill, Mrs. K. B. Murdock, Mrs. Frederick G. White, Mrs. Robert S. Billyer, Mrs. James P. Baxter, Mrs. A. N. Holcombe, Mrs. Walter Bradford Cannon, Mrs. James Ford, Mrs. E. A. Whitney, Mrs. G. H. Edgell, Mrs. O. D. Kellogg...
...Bishop Cannon refused to discuss Methodist Church charges against him (TIME, Sept. 29), fired the roman candles of distraction: "Catholics are largely responsible for the feeling against Prohibition. The archbishops, cardinals and on up to the Pope are antagonistic...