Word: cannoneer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although U. of C. is not a member of the "aristocracy of brains" it seems that the school that turned out men like "Uncle" Joe Cannon, William Howard Taft, Charles Gates Dawes, and Nicholas Longworth deserves to be mentioned when one of her favored sons passes...
...social as well as scientific, this year elected among 25 new members Walter Sherman Gifford, Frank Billings Kellogg, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Adolph Simon Ochs, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. But no women. Last woman admitted was Agnes Repplier, 73, author and Laetare Medalist, in 1928. Before her was Annie Jump Cannon, 67, Harvard's patient star recorder...
...Contrasting sharply with the arrival of Prince Takamatsu of Japan, for whom cannon and orators boomed (TIME, April 20), the arrival in Manhattan of Charles, Count of Flanders, Prince of Belgium, second son of King Albert of the Belgians, was so unostentatious as to cause comment by ship-news gatherers. Flatly the Prince disavowed intentions to "study" any "conditions" in the U. S. Said he: "I am a tourist, just as you would be in my country...
...Speaker's chair Longworth ruled with a strong fair hand. He was no less tyrannical than Reed or Cannon but he did it in such a pleasant smiling way that there was little resentment. Behind him he always had a healthy House majority which afforded him his opportunity to build up the "lower'' chamber's recent reputation for smooth, efficient legislating. No White House tool, he deserted the rostrum to fight and defeat President Coolidge on the 1929 Navy building program, President Hoover on the Soldier Bonus Loan. (This latter activity was chiefly motivated by the menacing hostility of Cincinnati...
Near Berlin last week newsmen stood behind protecting steel walls, stoppered their ears and watched a small cannon-like device vomit gases with a nerve-shattering roar. Two minutes of the din was all they could endure. The "cannon," mounted on an engine block, was Inventor Paul Heylandt's latest rocket motor propelled by burning of liquid oxygen and an alcoholic liquid. It was only two feet long, weighed 15 Ib. Installed in a hermetically sealed cabin airplane for stratospheric flight, the inventor said, it would propel the craft from Berlin to any point in Europe...