Word: cannoneer
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Louis XVI, amateur watchmaker, once produced an invention of his own in the garden of the Palais-Royal: a cannon rigged with an adjustable burning glass over the touchhole to go off just at noon each sunny day. From 1786 to August 1914, when it was silenced by General Joseph Gallieni lest it frighten war-worried Parisians, the meridian gun barked on. Fortnight ago Minister of Education Anatole de Monzie decided Louis' idea was still a good one. Reconditioned, the meridian gun will bark noon again in the Palais-Royal garden. But since Paris is on daylight saving time...
...Edinburgh ceremoniously gave him keys to the city (which by custom he handed back at once). Day the Assembly opened, he drove first to St. Giles's Cathedral and then to Assembly Hall, with his wife, purse-bearer, aides-de-camp, ladies-in-waiting and cavalry escort. Cannon thundered a royal salute. The Lord High Commissioner read a letter of commendation from the King. Thereafter he visited the Assembly daily, spent some of his ?2,000 on garden parties and other functions for the delegates...
...indictment of Bishop James Cannon Jr. on charges of violating the Federal Corrupt Practices Act (TIME, Oct. 26, 1931 et ante): a sustaining decision by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals...
...learn that the placid British bobby-historically the calmest of constables-was not immune to bribery and graft. There were nasty disclosures about protection from raids granted night-club owners. Viscount Byng of Vimy was drafted as Commissioner to reform the force. Eighteen months ago Lord Trenchard, a cannon-voiced officer known as ''Boom" to the Royal Air Force, succeeded Byng. Last week's report announced that things were still bad with the bobbies. There were only 23 murders in London (New York had over 400 in 1932) and in 13 cases the murderers saved the police...
...economist, nor is he a lawyer. Yet Mr. Roosevelt, after his presidential nomination, found him highly useful in both fields. He became the first member of the Democratic campaign "Brain Trust." He helped Mr. Roosevelt write his speeches. He coined stinging phrases for him (e. g., "industrial cannon fodder"). He traveled up & down the land with the party nominee. And he had his reward when he and he alone marched into the Red Room with President- elect Roosevelt to discuss War Debts with President Hoover last November. President Roosevelt gave Dr. Moley his State Department appointment three days after...