Word: cannoneer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a kick like a cannon ball...
...Heywood Broun, these seemed strange words indeed. Although he had never attacked a Christian church as such, he had in the past laid about him in bludgeoning fashion among the churches, belaboring reactionaries like Bishop James Cannon Jr., Canon William Sheafe Chase, Anthony Comstock (in a biography he helped write). To many a U. S. churchman, Heywood Broun was a Red, certainly a freethinker, probably an atheist...
Opened with simple readings and invocations by such diverse characters as radical Bishop Francis John McConnell of the late Northern church, reactionary Bishop James Cannon of the late Southern church, the Conference got under way when its co-chairmen-suave Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes (North), slight Bishop John Monroe Moore (South), Dr. James H. Straughn (Methodist Protestant)-said simultaneously: "This we do reverently in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." The unison would have been perfect except that Bishop Moore said "Holy Ghost...
...Engineering Co. factory, wholly owned by General Motors. There the sleek 1,200-h.p. motors that power the Army's fastest ships are built. Because the Air Corps takes the entire output of the plant, uses them to power speedy Lockheed, Bell and Curtiss pursuit ships and Bell cannon-carrying fighters (see p. 15), every Allison is a Prestone-cooled secret...
...nine if possible, was asleep two hours after the signing. But he was stirred: "It is ended," he said later, "that long war between us. Ended those long veils of mourning for the pains that will never be assuaged. Away with the rifles, the machine guns and the cannon! Here come conciliation, arbitration and peace...