Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circus buffs the Flying Codonas really, artistically wind up the show, though Human Projectile Hugo Zacchini still hurtles clear across the Garden from the mouth of an inclined cannon to make the official finale. Zacchini is good, and this year his cannon is mounted on a silver truck. But he is a find, not an artist, not a circus tradition. His trajectories will not be charted after he is gone...
When Roman Catholic churchmen take part in worldly affairs they usually do so unobtrusively, reversing the tactics used such persons as Los Angeles' loud Methodist "Bob" Shuler on the radio and Virginia's astute Methodist James Cannon Jr. on the stump and in the newspapers. Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin of Detroit is a blaring Roman Catholic exception. His voice as blatant as Preacher Shuler's, his words as un-clerical as Bishop Cannon's, he is known to large sections of the U.S. as a rousing, throbbing radiorator on the "Catholic Charrch" and, more lately...
...Brass Cannon," the second-novel of Charles Allen Smart '26 has just been published by W. W. Norton and Company. It will be reviewed in the CRIMSON in the near future...
...expected from the diaries; but to the student of colonial history they afford a wealth of material in factual form. Deaths seem to occupy large portions of each day's entries and it is interesting to note that many of the wounds resulted from explosions of the colonists' own cannon, so inexperienced were the militia in handling heavy field pieces. Thanks to the assiduousness of the New England diarists the student of Cape Breton meteorology will find in these journals, a wealth of information on the wind, weather, and rainfall for the duration...
Clerking in a grocery store gave Claude Swanson the money to go to Randolph-Macon. There his close friend was James Cannon Jr., now the politico-religionist. He was long (1893-1905) a member of the House. The Jamestown Exposition was the biggest event of his governorship (1906-10). Twenty-three years in the Senate made him No. 1 Democrat on the Naval Affairs Committee. A Big-Navy man, he was sent as a delegate to last year's disarmament conference at Geneva, made his big speech in praise of battleships...