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...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...
After the American Legion convention in Detroit last month (TIME, Sept. 28, Oct. 5), Dr. Clarence True Wilson, goateed general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, made speeches in St. Joseph and Kansas City, Mo. Said he: "Legion conventions are planned ahead of time as drunken orgies in defiance of the laws the men as soldiers had taken an oath of allegiance to support. . . . The ex-soldier who will [disobey the law], and practically all of them did in Detroit, is a perjured scoundrel who ought not to represent the decency of the flag under which...
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Said Bishop William Fletcher McMurry of Missouri to the clergymen at the Louisville Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Columbia, Ky.: "Golf is for worn-out business men, not for Methodist preachers...
...latest benefaction of Sarasota's first citizen: the opening of the Junior College and School of Art of the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher and Congressman Herbert Jackson Drane were there to make speeches. Bishop John Monroe Moore gave the benediction of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His moonlike face wreathed in smiles, John Ringling himself was there to turn the buildings over to their new director, Dr. Ludd Myrl Spivey...