Word: cannoneer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Legion is in New York. Five hundred thousand jostling uniforms take possession of midtown Gotham. Traffic comes to a standstill. False alarms are turned in from a score of fire boxes. Signs are torn from trolley cars. Police confiscate revolvers, even a one-pound cannon. Two legionnaires die unknown and violent deaths. Soon there will be interminable military music, and for 18 1-2 hours the conquerors of New York are marching up Fifth Avenue...
...about five full blocks of Whangpoo dockyards. Promptly the Japanese warships in midstream upped anchor and steamed slowly past the broken line Too close to depress the muzzles of their big guns sufficiently, they passed in review pouring a hot stream of fire from every machine gun and light cannon into the Chinese lines...
Alert, adaptable Roy Davis has had two separate and successful careers. He got his political start as a page to U. S. Speaker Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, continued it after taking a Ph.B. degree at Brown in 1910 as secretary to the commission in charge of building the Missouri capitol. He married a Missouri girl named Loyce Enloe, and branched out as an educator in 1914 by joining the administrative staff of Stephens, which young President James Madison ("Daddy") Wood was just beginning to develop into a horsey mid-western finishing school (TIME, June 7). Seven years later...
...temporary triumph for the common stockholders, this was regarded by many Pittsburghers as one more incident in a long, unacknowledged rivalry between the Mellons and Pittsburgh's second most powerful family. Founded by the late, hard-driving John Hartwell Hillman Sr., who cast cannon balls during the Civil War and moved to Pittsburgh from Tennessee, the Hillman coke-iron-coal-banking-industrial empire now extends over six States. John Hartwell Hillman Jr., who was born in tiny Trigg Furnace, Ky., 57 years ago, is a director in a score of banks, steel companies and other corporations including Pittsburgh...
...running every night but Monday. Hungarian Victor Kolar, associated with the Detroit Symphony since 1919, was newly back from Europe and planned to conduct the whole series. At a later concert he planned to make the 1812 Overture louder than Tchaikovsky intended by setting off time-bombs instead of cannon...