Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When cannon boomed from Santiago de Cuba in 1898, Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson, temporarily down the coast on his crack, three-funneled flag-cruiser New York, turned her and raced back in time to see the last ship of Cervera's squadron sink, in the second and decisive naval battle of the Spanish War. That cruiser, then five years old, has served ever since, is now the oldest active U. S. fighting ship. In 1912, on the launching of the battleship New York, she was rechristened Saratoga and relegated (though as flagship) to the Asiatic fleet...
...mountain-shadowed harbor last week. A motor procession carried him and his party to a conference with important Brazilian Methodists. They at once began to write a constitution for a Methodist Church of Brazil. Just arrived from Europe with his new wife and meeting them was Bishop James Cannon Jr., the Southern Methodists' missionary bishop of Brazil, as well as chairman of their Board of Temperance & Social Service. When at the end of this month Brazilian Methodists adopt their constitution and elect their own bishop, they will be independent of the Methodist Church, South. Last month Methodist Bishop Warren...
Killed. Harvey Powers, 47, "all around daredevil" (flagpole sitting, air clowning, skyscraper climbing); when, shot from a cannon on an airplane over the ocean at Atlantic City, his parachute failed to open. He had been doing the stunt daily for five weeks, waiting longer and longer before pulling the ripcord...
Married. Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 65, famed politician and stock gambler, a widower since 1928; to a Mrs. Helen Hawley McCallum, 45, Manhattan widow; at Christ Church, Mayfair, London...
...first entirely across it. That started an argument which could not be settled until, last week, they lined up again, their engines roaring and their stovepipe smokestacks belching smoke black as ink, 50 ft. behind the starting line at Fernbank dam, twelve miles below Cincinnati. A small cannon boomed; both started for the line, the Tom Greene accelerating with the quick pick-up that has made river-people call her "Hopping Tom." Nailed firmly on the front of the wheelhouse of the ''Hopping Tom," where stood young Capt. Tom Greene himself, were the gilded antlers that...