Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee has set a goal of $150-000 to go to the relief of unemployment in Cambridge. Members of the Harvard Committee are: W. B. Cannon '06, George Higginson Professor of Physiology; C. W. Williams, professor of Architecture; Calvert Magruder, professor of Law; G. W. Pierce, Rumford Professor of Physics; S. L. Slichter, professor of Business Economics...
...Aubin '21, J. P. Baxter, III, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Biddle, Conrad Bierwirth '84, J. M. Brewer, S. A. Buckingham '27, Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Campbell, Dr. W. B. Cannon '96, E. S. Castle '25, A. H. Chase, W. J. Cunningham, F. B. Deknatel, Raphael Demos, D. B. Durand '25, E. R. Ellis '16, Ephraim Emerton '71, E. S. Emory '87, M. L. Fernald, Holden Furber '23, Russell Gibson, N. S. B. Gras, C. B. Gulick '90 and Mrs. Gulick, J. P. Haffner '22, A. C. Hanford, L. J. Henderson '98, W. E. Hocking '01, F. W. Hoeing...
...appeal is signed by six professors. In addition to Professor Hall, the members of the committee are W. B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology; C. W. Killam, professor of Architecture; Calvert Magruder, professor of Law; S. H. Slichter, professor of Business Economics; and G. W. Pierce, Rumford Professor of Physics...
...pushed down, singing bass in his cups, playing the fiddle Saturday nights in a parlor orchestra. But he keeps more regular hours now, leaves Baltimore less often. He reads The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn once a year, enjoys talking philosophy and theology with Baltimore priests. For shrewd Bishop James Cannon Jr., whose Methodist Episcopal Church, South, along with the Baptists, Editor Mencken used to bait and belabor so vociferously, he now has a genuine admiration ("I'd hardly call him a merry fellow, but he is amiable, intelligent. . . . Very few living Americans are so interesting...
Perhaps it was Bishop Cannon, whose brain Publisher William Randolph Hearst has called "the best in America," who was responsible for Mencken's diminishing fire on the religious booboisie. And perhaps it was his own tax bills which inspired Editor Mencken suddenly to start firing in his American Mercury last week, with all his oldtime noise but with not quite the cleverness of his oldtime savagery, at a new national target: the High Cost of Public Education...