Word: cannoneer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years since, five salvage expeditions, French, German, Dutch, English, have recovered no more than $200,000, a few cannon balls, a spoon, some brass nails and the ship's bell which now hangs in Lloyd's. Meanwhile, the Lutine settled down 70 feet through loose sand till she rested on the clay bottom. Last spring, Lloyd's licensed Billiton Point Mining...
...three metres distance I saw how the gold glittered!" It was a bar weighing 120 ounces, worth about $4,000. The scoops had reached the treasure chamber. Then the sand caved in again over the ship; for three days the scoops worked furiously, finally last week brought up a cannon...
...from France in that event. In Italy, the controlled press fumed at "Red Spain." Benito Mussolini's journalistic spokesman, Virginio Gayda, writing in Giornale d'Italia, said Italy's answer to Leftist bombs "will be immediate and implacable, not with diplomatic notes of protest, but with cannon." Italian Chargé d'Affaires Renato Prunas warned M. Bonnet in Paris: "We shall reply to acts of war with acts of war." Leftist Spain's Paris Ambassador Dr. Marcelino Pascuo, hurriedly corrected any impression that "places from which the raiders come" meant Italy...
...Allen, noted war correspondent, will lecture in Emerson D tonight at 8 o'clock on latest developments in Spain, under the auspices of the Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy. Walter B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology, chairman of the group, will preside at the meeting...
...States, municipalities or Federal Government own title to the U. S. coast between high-water mark and the three-mile limit is by no means an academic question. The three-mile limit itself is slightly academic, since it was defined in the 18th Century by the approximate distance a cannon could throw a shot. In the case of the 13 Original States it has been pretty well established that the three-mile strip is theirs; in the case of States like California the natural confusion and controversy are a hundred times confounded. Last winter, a special session of the California...