Word: cannoneer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warfare is positively the most humane type invented, because of its humanity; it must not be forgotten that it proved itself the most efficient during the World War even though its use on a large scale was limited to the last two years of that struggle", said W. B. Cannon '96, George Lee Higginson Professor of Physiology, yesterday in commenting on the recent CRIMSON interview on chemical warfare. "Of the 18,000 men in war hospitals that I have recently visited, only four veterans were suffering from poison...
...first U. S. Tariff Commission. Incorrigibly internationalistic, he stayed there until 1928. Colorado's Democrats in 1930 sent him to the Senate where he found himself the last of the Wilsonians. A maverick, he naturally strayed with the Sons of the Wild Jackass. Once the late "Uncle Joe" Cannon asked Mr. Costigan what were his politics...
...social occasion. U. S. Vice Admiral Taylor's aide, Lieut. Henri H. Smith-Hutton, paid a call. Admiral Nomura stepped into his barge and returned it. British Vice Admiral Kelly popped over for a chat. The Press was invited and Admiral Nomura made a little speech. Chapei's cannon rattled the teacups...
Flea Cousin Charlie has been taught to push about an infinitesimal ball. Flea Napoleon trudges along with a small wire cannon in tow. Flea Reuben tugs a roller. Prompted with a bit of broom straw, Napoleon, Reuben and Cousin Charlie are encouraged to race. There are, in addition, six dancing fleas. Rudolf from Hapsburg operates a tiny carousel, but one suspects that the Professor's favorite is "Caesar and his Roman chariot...
Idealistic proposals of this type have more value as Indications of the prevailing sentiment than as practical measures. The real hope for disarmament at the present time appears to lie in the economic situation, not in speeches which are lost in the rear of the Oriental cannon. No nation can now afford the expense of large scale war construction. That fact may at least induce the Geneva Convention to extend the Washington agreement, and perhaps complete it by securing the adherence of France...