Word: cannoneer
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...worst tempered men who ever lived. As a Brit ish officer he did his blundering best to squash the Yankee farmers in the American Revolution. For his efforts he was finally raised to the rank of a Field Marshal. His fondness for having soldiers flogged at cannon wheels or blown from the muzzle of guns, and later his refusal to issue whiskey to the ranks, forced his retirement as Governor of Gibraltar. Visitors to Quebec still are shown the summer house where his West Indian slaves are supposed to have held voodoo orgies. He drank a great deal. Mounting debts...
Promptly the dam broke. Spanish radicals might be in the minority, but they were ready, and they were armed. In every part of Spain, with rifles, revolvers, machine-guns, and occasionally light cannon, the revolutionists fought their way. But, to their unbounded disgust, army, navy and civil guards stayed loyal. At least 400 were killed, 1.500 wounded in the bloodiest week-end the Republic has seen. What caused this revolt to fail, like all the others that have shaken the country since the fall of Alfonso XIII, was a complete lack of organization...
...lovemaking would be a trans-Pacific airline operated jointly by the U. S. and Japan. Less idyllic was Col. Rickenbacker's picture of engines of Death in the Next War: "Airplanes . . . will pick up fast tanks and drop them over enemy lines without landing. Planes will fire small cannon from the air, and whole armies will be moved in huge transports. Giant lenses will be taken to great altitudes and focused on the sun's rays so that cities will be burnt...
...head off potential flying lenses, cannon and tanks, Secretary of War Dern last week announced organization of a General Headquarters Air Force-an air-mada of 1,000 bombing, pursuit and attack planes in five wings, concentrated on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts and in the Middle West. Recommended in the Baker Committee report on Army aviation (TIME, July 30), the GHQ Air Force will virtually constitute a separate Air Corps-a fighting unit distinct from the observation groups which function directly with ground troops in tactical operations...
...committee consists of Elmer P. Kohler, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry; Alfred C. Redfield, Professor of Physiology and Director of the Biological Laboratories; Simeon B. Wolbach, Shattuck Professor of Pathological Anatomy, and Consulting Pathologist to the Cancer Commission of Harvard University; Walter B. Cannon, George Higginson Professor of Physiology; Percy R. Howe, Thomas Alexander Forsyth Professor of Dental Science, and Instructor in Pathology, Harvard Medical School; Lawrence W. Baker, Professor of Orthodontia; and Dr. George P. Matthews, Instructor in Anatomy. Dean Leroy M. S. Miner of the Dental School will serve as a member ex-officie...