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...Finns Cannon-Fodder...
...Speaker of the House since 1936 has been William Brockman Bankhead of Alabama.* His way of rule was not the harsh tsarism of Joe Cannon (1903-11), the rough-&-tumble domination of Nick Longworth (1925-31). Partly from natural bent, partly of necessity, he used the gentler arts of persuasion, parliamentary device, friendship. His pre-New Deal predecessors had special patronage to dispense, and patronage was power. Franklin Roosevelt took away most of the Speaker's patronage, leaving William Bankhead with no club to hold, no favors to give...
...soldier. On the front we all had before our eyes the terrible consequences resulting for young soldiers who were not thoroughly educated in the craft of war. Formations of volunteers, who during fifteen and twenty weeks had been drilled with iron determination and with infinite devotion, represented nothing but cannon fodder on the front." (Italics mine...
...have rearmed and rebuilt our armies in a degree which would have been deemed impossible a few months ago. We have ferried across the Atlantic, thanks to our friends over there, an immense mass of munitions of all kinds: cannon, rifles, machine guns, cartridges and shells; all safely landed without the loss of a gun or a round. . . ." (British authorities revealed last week that 600,000 badly needed Springfield rifles, 500 field pieces [mostly 75 mm.] and large quantities of ammunition, bought in June from the U. S. Government's surplus World War I stocks, were not only safely...
...m.p.h. was breakneck speed for a "naphtha launch." Last week, when the 37th Gold Cup race was staged at Northport Harbor on Long Island Sound, two entries boasted speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h.: Lou Fageol's So Long (97.451 m.p.h. over a measured mile) and George Cannon's Gray Goose III (92.309 m.p.h.). Motorboats have gone faster (Sir Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird II hit 141 m.p.h. last year), but for a Gold Cup boat, limited to engines of 600 to 732 cu. in. piston displacement, 97 m.p.h. was going some...