Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said the Pittsburgh Press's Douglas Naylor of the No. 1 prizewinner: "Like some others, this reviewer smiled at first sight of South of Scranton. It seems reasonable to conclude that the cannon atop the queer turret is symbolic of capitalism." William Germain Dooley of the Boston Evening Transcript: "All very childlike and charming and deliberately naïve-but also completely counterfeit and insincere...
...ranks formed. Excitement and anticipation fill the camp. A huge gaunt figure, hatless and cloakless, sweeps imperiously on a white charger to the front of the newly formed platoons. This man commands attentions, respect, admiration, fear. Ranks become straighter, shoulders stiffer, guns arched higher. His voice booms like a cannon through the crisp morning air: "Comrades, this is an historic moment. All Europe watches us today. Victory means freedom from the treacherous claws of Louis of France . . . if we loss our lives, our Country and our homes are the pledge . . Every man will be expected to do his duty...
...that impersonal and brutal engine of destruction which disrupted the entire world. Unfortunately there are others to take his place, others eager to defend their nation's honor, ready to make the supreme sacrifice for a cause they neither understand or care about. The myth of patriotism still supplies cannon with their fodder and armies with their generals. Will it always be thus? Alas, yes, until men begin to ask why they are fighting and refuse to give way to an indefinite emotional sentiment instilled in them by men who sit in easy chairs miles behind the line of action...
...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...
...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...