Word: cannoneer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simpson Grant and General Philip Henry Sheridan at his side. But to many Georgians and South Carolinians, General Sherman is still repugnant in any form. At Columbia, where an indignant legislator heatedly recalled that the west wall of the State Capitol still bears scars made by Sherman's cannon balls, the South Carolina House oi Representatives passed a resolution calling upon South Carolina's national Senators and Representatives to demand that the Post Office Department stop the memoria issue because the military career of General Sherman "is a history of rapine, carnage, destruction and murder waged principally against...
...struck by the sparkling costumes, an ingenious unfolding backdrop, a big spidery web which the Prince had to rip aside to reach the Princess. The dancers were more energetic than exact. Russian Alexis Dolinoff, as Prince Désiré, was a worse dancer than U. S.-born Thomas Cannon (Prince-from-the-North). As the heroine, Miss Littlefield danced cleanly and classically...
...standard of living has declined and there is chronic shortage of individual food items under Goring's Rearmament program of "Cannon instead of Butter." There are "Strength Through Joy" vacation treats and trips for workers on a grand scale which would have seemed incredible four years ago. In Germany the Protestants, Catholics and every other religious group except the Nazi mystics have been ruthlessly trampled by the State and the Jews have been legally reduced to a sub-citizen depressed class...
Says Ex-Senator Watson of Senator Norris' unsuccessful fight in 1910 to prevent the re-election of "Uncle Joe" Cannon to the Speakership and the readoption of the Reed Rules under which he operated as Speaker: "George W. Norris had been a judge, and always a man of industry and ability. Uncle Joe and I had just campaigned in his district, and we were all on the friendliest terms...
...daunted by this notion was Joseph L. Fowler, of Boston's Jordan Marsh, who urged the end of the dunning letters, proposed for delinquent accounts notices that were "mild in tone, neat in appearance, impersonal in nature." An outside suggestion carne from President Frederic Arlington Williams of Cannon Mills (towels) who said his company once "seriously considered discontinuing our efforts to sell to department stores." Taking a dig at Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. and its perennial price wars with Bloomingdale's and Gimbel's, Towelman Williams declared: "No sane manufacturer likes to have...