Word: cannoneer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Royer (formerly Mrs. Raymond Cannon and Mrs. Jack Gallagher) was a dancer, pressagent, and actors' representative before she began producing pictures in 1927 (she was 25 then). She has since made approximately 30 pictures and is the only woman producer who owns and runs her own company, producing and financing her action-adventure pictures. Often confused in the past with Stage-Production Fanchon, now that the latter has entered pictures, Film's Fanchon Royer anticipates more confusion...
...Walter B. Cannon, Higginson Professor of Physiology at the Medical School and chairman of the Medical Bureau, issued the following statement...
Walter B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology, and chairman of the national committee of the Medical Bureau to aid Spanish Democracy, heads the list of Faculty men behind the local branch. Hume Dow '38 and Laurence S. Levy '39, are temporary student chairman and assistant chairman respectively...
...Jail was scandalized, sullenly consented to a religious service for his charges only because the sheriff commanded him to in writing. When Bishop William White and Dr. William Rogers arrived at the jail, they found a number of convicts huddled before an improvised pulpit, beside which stood a formidable cannon whose gunner had lighted a taper, ready to fire at the slightest sign of trouble...
...strongly against it, declaring that they preferred a certain 10% cut (about $350,000,000 net after fixed charges) in the hand, to a possible 15% cut ($1,100,000,000) in the bush. After this Senate backfire, Speaker Bank head announced that he had only assumed that the Cannon proposal had President Roosevelt's approval. His embarrassment was heightened by discovery that under a statute of 1906 the President already has precisely the authority set forth in the Cannon resolution...