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...Jameson's contributions: $65,300 to Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, South; $30,000 to the Virginia State Republican Committee; $50,000 to the National Constitutional Democratic Committee (for anti-Smith work in Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri); $20,000 to the North Carolina Republican State Committee; $5,000 to the Indiana Republican Committee; $2,500 to the Republican National Committee. Explained Mr. Jameson: "I'm a great believer in the 18th Amendment...
Ambassador. Alarmed by President Hoover's appointment of Presbyterian Motorman John North Willys to be U. S. Ambassador at Warsaw (Mr. Hoover had previously designated Methodist Alexander Pollack Moore, who died before he could take the post) the Polish Catholic Press Agency last week sent out as news a story that "Mr. Willys finances anti-Catholic fanatics, mostly Methodists...
...descendant of Sir Robert Lewis of Wales and of an old American family. All of my relatives, including my mother and father, still live in New York and all of them are of the Christian religion. As a very young child I was raised in the Methodist church under Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, who was pastor of the church on Seventh Avenue near 14th Street. I was a member of his choir for many years, as was my brother. There is no jew in my past life that warrants the assumption that I am Jewish, and I do not consider...
Perfidious Cannon? What really instigated the Lobby Committee's Prohibition investigation were the charges filed with it by Massachusetts Congressman George Holden Tinkham against the Anti-Saloon League, the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals and the political activities of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (TIME, April 7). Last week Representative Tinkham appeared before the committee, generalized about the "$67,565,312.72" the Anti-Saloon League had spent, vaguely deplored the failure of politico-religious campaigners to reveal their expenditures under the Corrupt Practice...
Cartoonist George McManus (Bringing Up Father) made known that he would draw and explain his characters ("Jiggs," ''Maggie" et al.) to a Manhattan Methodist congregation to accompany Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner's sermon...