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...Mountains' in honor of their late-lamented citizen, Gaylord Wilshire. The conception has infinite possibilities. Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga might readily be called 'Mount Cardui,' while Nahant Bay (off Lynn, Mass.) could be rechristened to immortalize the omni- present Lydia by changing it to Tinkham Bay.' 'Bromo Seltzer River' . . . for the Patapsco River at Baltimore...
...prominence whose spiritual loins were somewhat ungirded last month when his church's convention required him to ex press contrition or stand trial for ''bucket shop" gambling (TIME, May 19). He seemed nice lion-bait, so the room was packed with spectators, including Representative George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts, who accused the Methodist Board of lobbying, and Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of the Speaker of the House, who regarded the scene through alert lorgnette...
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...
...specific charge Mr. Tinkham did make against Bishop Cannon. He developed the fact that according to a Senate investigation report in 1929 the largest single contributor to Herbert Hoover's campaign was Edwin Cornell Jameson of Manhattan who gave $172,000 to beat Democratic Nominee Smith. Mr. Jameson is president of Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co., a director of many another insurance company and bank, and of American Smelting & Refining Co. According to his report to the Senate, he contributed $65,300 to Bishop Cannon to wage his successful war against Nominee Smith in Virginia. When the Bishop...
...ready to investigate the activities of Wet and Dry organizations now working in Washington to influence legislation. These lobbies have been largely responsible for assembling witnesses and stage-managing the House Judiciary Committee hearings. The first Senate Lobby Committee witness will be Massachusetts' bearded Congressman George Holden Tinkham who has a mass of complaints to file against the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals...