Word: cannoneer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good?" Said Brother Christopher, arguing the affirmative: "Felix is a diplomat of the status quo- he comes before you as a Talleyrand; I, shrinking in my intellectual exposure, will be a Sally Rand." Cornered at a Methodist Bishop's Council in New Orleans, famed Prohibition-crusading Bishop James Cannon Jr., 72, admitted he had tasted liquor for the first time when his doctor last fortnight prescribed 30-drop doses of wine. "But I still don't like it," he snapped, declaring Prohibition would return...
...Republican in national elections. Senator Norris, who has never had a political organization at home, has generally a more powerful individual appeal. His insurgency and his opponent's anger nearly always make him a martyr. It began when he was deprived of all patronage for his revolt against Cannon (he still has none). His martyrdom has gone on year by year, with vituperative newspaper attacks and such follies as the regulars committed in 1930 when they tried to do him dirt by putting up a grocery clerk named George W. Norris to run against him in the primary. Under...
HERBERT D. CANNON Indian Field Service, Department of the Interior Parker, Ariz...
...June 8 et seq.) and this week, as nervous Premier Blum temporarily took charge of the Ministry of Interior himself, fresh stayin strikes erupted. Communist Leader Maurice Thorez turned what was to have been a Paris mass meeting of mourning for Suicide Salengro into a howling mob which screamed, "Cannon for Spain!" and "Down with Fascism!" at Defense Minister Edouard Daladier. Vainly he shouted, "I came here thinking we would all unite in commemorating Roger Salengro...
...Statue of Liberty as he sails away to France. And from the revue stage and poetic drama, the play proceeds to a forceful sequence of impressionistic scenes. Johnny is found in a trench with his company and while they writhe their twisted limbs in troubled sleep, three great cannon bathed in green light rise over the parapet, ghoulishly croak a lament...