Word: cannoneer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Civil war ended, cannon factories began making fancy grillwork and iron dogs. When railroads made Western stage coach lines obsolescent, Wells Fargo got into the railway express business. With the passing of the horse, Studebaker Carriage works survived by manufacturing automobiles. The return of beer has similarly forced the nation's underworld into evolution. As was amply evidenced last week, the defunct beer racket is swiftly being superseded as a source of criminal revenue by the uglier, more desperate crime of kidnapping. Unlike a legitimate industry, a gang which has been running beer need not modify...
Bishop James Cannon Jr. stumped the State at the head of a vigorous Prohibitionist faction, told Indianapolitans: ''Indiana is the first State in which we have had an even chance. If we can win here we can prevent Repeal." Day after the voting, resilient Prohibitor Francis Scott McBride was declaring: "The vote in Indiana is heartening to those fighting Repeal. We had decided in advance that anything less than a 2-to-1 victory for Repeal would be a moral victory for us there." He thereupon vanished in Alabama. "The Wets had the support of both the national...
Fourteen prominent members of the Faculty appearing as contributors are: J. H. Beale '82, G. D. Birkhoff '05, W. B. Cannon '96, T. N. Carver, hon., Sheldon Cheney Gr. '13, E. F. Gay '08, A. B. Hart '80, W. E. Hocking '01, A. Lawrence Lowell '77, K. B. Murdock '16, Roscoe Pound LL.D. '20, the late J. H. Ropes '89, F. W. Taussig '79, A. N. Whitehead...
Louis XVI, amateur watchmaker, once produced an invention of his own in the garden of the Palais-Royal: a cannon rigged with an adjustable burning glass over the touchhole to go off just at noon each sunny day. From 1786 to August 1914, when it was silenced by General Joseph Gallieni lest it frighten war-worried Parisians, the meridian gun barked on. Fortnight ago Minister of Education Anatole de Monzie decided Louis' idea was still a good one. Reconditioned, the meridian gun will bark noon again in the Palais-Royal garden. But since Paris is on daylight saving time...
...Edinburgh ceremoniously gave him keys to the city (which by custom he handed back at once). Day the Assembly opened, he drove first to St. Giles's Cathedral and then to Assembly Hall, with his wife, purse-bearer, aides-de-camp, ladies-in-waiting and cavalry escort. Cannon thundered a royal salute. The Lord High Commissioner read a letter of commendation from the King. Thereafter he visited the Assembly daily, spent some of his ?2,000 on garden parties and other functions for the delegates...