Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamber of Deputies when Deputy Henri de Kerillis accused Air Minister Pierre Cot of having given to Soviet Russia a priceless French secret: a model and blueprints for the 23-mm. machine gun with which France's huge "airfortress" planes are to be armed. This airplane "cannon," screamed Deputy de Kerillis, is the sole superiority France has over its potential enemies in the air. Scrappy, bespectacled Air Minister Cot replied that nations allied in pacts of mutual assistance, as are France and Russia, ought to exchange information, that anyway the "cannon" was the property of a Swiss engineer named...
...Byrns was not a great Speaker in the tradition of "Tsar" Reed, "Uncle Joe" Cannon and "Nick" Longworth. But the same big, warm heart which kept him from giving the unwieldy House the iron-fisted discipline it often needs made the onetime Tennessee farm boy one of the best-liked Speakers the House has ever had. Last week the nation's statesmen forgot his amiable, easy-going leadership, paid heartfelt tribute to his honest simplicity, blamed his death on the conscientious industry with which he strived to fulfill his duties. "He served his State and the nation," mourned President...
Marriage Revealed. Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith, 25, daughter of Towel Tycoon Joseph F. Cannon, onetime wife of the late Zachary Smith Reynolds (Camels) and of Brandon Smith (real estate) of Charlotte, N. C.; and Lindsay Plumly, 26, nephew of onetime President Bowman Gray of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels) ; at Belair...
...walrus-mustached British General named Robert Cornells Napier landed on the coast of Eritrea with 32,000 men, six cannon and a herd of baggage elephants. Into Ethiopia they marched to punish Emperor Theodore for the torture and imprisonment of a group of British officers. Three months later the British column had fought its way some 400 miles inland and had defeated Theodore's tribesmen at Magdala. Emperor Theodore promptly blew his brains out with a revolver presented to him by Queen Victoria. By June 18, five months after the expedition had started, the last British soldier had left...
Twenty years later militarism, triumphantly astride a prostrate world, is again threatened in its security. A handful of potential cannon fodder, organized as Future War Veterans, has laid hands on a deadly weapon which threatens to engulf the hitherto invincible strongholds of the professional murderers and their patrioteer subsidiaries...