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...celebration of Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon's twenty-five years as George Higginson professor of physiology in Harvard University, the afternoon and evening have been set aside for exercises befitting the occasion, at the Amphitheater, Building C, Harvard Medical School, at 4 o'clock with Dr. David L. Edsall presiding. Papers will be given by Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, of the Mayo Clinic, on "Influence of Dr. Cannon's Work upon Medical Thought and Progress" and by Dr. William H. Howell, of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene, on "The Development of Physiology during the Past Twenty-five Years...
...Laval to listen sympathetically when Mr. Hoover asks France to join in a worldwide economy program of lessened armaments. This, from the French point of view, is a "sacrifice of security" which few Frenchmen are prepared to make. But Belgium, less militaristic than France, is anxious to economize on cannon...
...Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen, onetime Republican Senator from New Jersey, sent Bishop Cannon a $10,000 contribution, in cashier's checks bought for cash. No record could be found of a report to Congress of this campaign expenditure by Bishop Cannon or Mr. Frelinghuysen. The latter is a director of "Fat Cat" Jameson's insurance company. ¶ Claudius Hart Huston, Tennessee Hooverite who later became Republican National Committee Chairman, donated $5,000 to Bishop Cannon's Anti-Smith fund which also was not reported...
...Bishop Cannon has brought a $500,000 libel suit against Congressman Tinkham. Also awaiting trial are the Bishop's $6,000,000 libel actions against the Hearst newspapers and their publisher as a result of stories about his second marriage...
...army officers accused of participating in the last Portuguese revolution, the ruckus in April on the island of Madeira (TIME, May 11). Immediately two raggle taggle bands of soldiers, officers, civilians rushed the third artillery in Lisbon garrison and Sao Jorge fortress on the heights above the city, seized cannon and machine guns, pasted up proclamations defying the Government, dug themselves in. Few revolutionists have been so stupid or so brave. Truckloads of loyal troops crashed through the streets, surrounded the rebels and opened a withering fire. It kept up for nine hours...