Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reached that point. . . . The fears and apprehensions directed to the stability of first one nation and then another have caused . . . large flows of gold to meet exchange demands. . . . Thus a mass of gold dashing hither and yon from one nation to another, seeking maximum safety, has acted like a cannon loose on the deck of the world in a storm...
...even the Statue of Liberty is more famed among Latins. Thirty-one years ago Argentina and Chile renounced war in a spirit profoundly Christian, melted down hundreds of cannon to cast "The Christ of the Andes." Last week the huge figure, standing guard between two nations as their Prince of Peace, towered majestic and compassionate above the snow-bogged motorcade. With his left hand the Savior supports a cross taller than himself. The right hand is raised in benediction. Darkness came on as the drivers of the eight sedans jumped out and began vainly to shovel. Slowly the snow-whipped...
...hypothesis is the brain-child of Dr. Walter B. Cannon, Harvard physiologist, and it proposes the application of simple biological laws to economic and social problems. The basis of the theory according to its founder rests upon the similarity of the body politic to the human body in susceptibility to maladjustment...
...human body to the economic system of the world, bringing into account the manner in which the body throws away its waste products, and the way in which it is equipped with two kidneys, extra lung space and other excessive organs which leave a great margin of safety. Dr. Cannon offers a model of tested and reliable performance which, he states, the world may well copy in stabilizing its economic and social pattern...
...that the stentorian blasts of Howard Scott and the other Technocrats have died away under the rigors of a close examination, a new and more demure solution to the social ill offers itself. Professor Cannon of Harvard, in a recent speech, advanced a theory which the gentlemen of the press have baptized with the title, "Biocracy." Though Professor Cannon himself deprecates any publicity attaching to his revelation, and probably expected none when he propounded it; the papers and the public have refused to let him go down unsung. His proposition has that indefinable quality of esoteric complexity which endears itself...