Word: cannoneer
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Please may we have fewer manoeuvering warships; fewer trials of new cannon and other death-dealers; more constructive thought on International Peace...
...himself as already belonging to the immortal company of great Speakers. To an old acquaintance who called him "Mr. Byrns," he said, "Call me Joe? or Uncle Joe. I don't like that 'Mister'." Washington chuckled, seeing only the remotest similarity between him and that other "Uncle Joe" Cannon, the late great Speaker (TIME, March 3, 1923). Wags suggested that to distinguish the two it would be best to call Speaker-Apparent Byrns. "Old White...
...saints on earth?Heber Jedediah Grant, 78, stubble-bearded President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. With him sat his trusty First Counselor, pudding-jowled Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., one-time U. S. Ambassador to Mexico; his potent Presiding Bishop, rangy Sylvester Q. Cannon; his Eastern representative, Don Byron Colton, longtime U. S. Representative from Utah...
...most interest to New York Mormons last week was the presence of their Prophet, Seer & Revelator, who resembles the late "Uncle Joe" Cannon, and talks in the homely, crackling manner of a country storekeeper. President Grant told his listeners how, 52 years ago when he first held Mormon office, the Church had but 1,300 followers outside Utah (at present it has 100,000). He spoke of his troubles as a missionary in England, where he could not get a word in the newspapers to refute the abuse heaped on his faith. "Today," said he, "we are treated splendidly...
...Sidetracked, at the behest of Bishop James Cannon Jr., a liberal committee report on the liquor traffic, declared itself instead "unalterably opposed" to that traffic...