Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is the land over which Bolivia and Paraguay have squabbled since 1879. Soldiers were fighting for it last week. Cannon crashed in the hot jungle. Men were dying, but there...
More relevant than the story are the scenes of Culver: the clumsy squad of plebes, inspections, the morning cannon and reveille, mealtime in the great dining hall, promotion and demotion, and finally graduation day, with its mingling of the military and the academic on Culver's beautiful campus...
...Hubler of California formally nominated Senator Borah as "a radical Dry at all times . . . a man who is personally something of an agnostic, who does not smoke, nor drink, nor chew, nor play cards, a man whose election would sound the death-knell of the liquor traffic." Delegate Richard Cannon of California, son of Bishop James Cannon Jr., seconded the Borah nomination. The organ played "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and the delegates paraded up and down the aisles...
Bishop James Cannon Jr., the South's arch Dry, sounded the same note: "Mr. Rockefeller's attitude is doubtless sincere, but it's not surprising to those who know the influences which surround him, living as he does where literally Satan's seat is, in the home of Alfred E. Smith, of Jimmy Walker and of the Tammany Tiger...
...Bishop Cannon's second wife, before he married her, used to occupy an apartment on Manhattan's West 85th Street...