Word: cannoneer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This collection of key men is, however, only one squad in the following with which John Garner has equipped himself in the Congress. Since Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon (1837-1927), who finally met in Jack Garner his match at poker, no man, not even the late convivial Nick Longworth, enjoyed such influence among members on both sides of the aisle in both Houses as this stubby, stubborn, pink & white billiken with the beak of an owl, eyebrows like cupid's-wings, tongue of a cowhand. He takes Capitol freshmen aside and instructs them philosophically. "Now, Scott," he said...
...urchins playing in summer camps, Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria saying "Thank you" to Czech benefactors, orators addressing crowds. Nonetheless, pieced together with considerable skill and photographically first-rate, the picture is a reasonably coherent photographic appendix to last summer's headlines. Effective sequence: Czech soldiers lugging cannon up a mountainside for the defense that was never undertaken...
Skiing in. Snow Bartlett, N.H. Fair Good 33 Powder Brookline, N.H. Fair Good 9 Dry Canaan, N.H. Fair Good 20 Cannon Mt. (Tramway) N.H. Fair Good 105 27 Powder Conway, N.H. Fair Good 34 Powder Dartmouth Region, N.H. Fair Good 20 10 Powder Franconia Notch, N.H. Fair Good 65 27 Powder Fryeburg, Me. Fair Good 46 Wet Greenfield, Mass. Fair Poor 5 Soft Intervale, N.H. Fair Good 36 Powder Jackson, N.H. Fair Good 35 Powder Laconia (Gilford) N.H. Fair Fair 31 Frozen granular Lancaster, N.H. Fair Fair 24 1 new wet Lincoln, N.H. Fair Good 38 3 damp over...
With the temperature hovering between freezing and 28 degrees, skiing conditions this week have been as favorable as at any time during the winter. Cannon Mountain, Franconia Notch, Pinkham Notch, and Waterville Valley, all in New Hampshire, offer the best skiing for this weekend...
There are 105 inches of snow with 27 of powder on Cannon Mountain, where the weather is cloudy and the temperature 28 degrees. In Franconia Notch the snow is 65 inches deep and also has 27 inches powder, with the temperature slightly under freezing...