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Word: cannonism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire military scheme of things, as far as the enlisted man is concerned is far from perfect, but who are there that will protest in behalf of the "Dog Robber?" He has no vote or is he other than future cannon fodder - the officers, well, that's the great argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 10, 1929 | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...Thomas Brackett Reed (1839-1902) of Maine was twice Speaker of the House: 1889-91 and 1895-99. Strong of will, he, with William McKinley and Joseph Gurney Cannon, framed new parliamentary rules which provided that every Representative must vote, that members present but not voting could be counted for a quorum, that no dilatory or filibustering motion be entertained by the Speaker. Attacked as a "Tsar," he used his rules to rush through the House the McKinley (1890) and the Dingley (1897) tariff bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: No. 6 Man | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

With McKinley and Cannon, Tsar Reed held control of the Rules Committee, framed programs which he would announce thus: "Gentlemen, William and Joseph and I have decided to perpetuate the following outrage." Speaker Reed once characterized his opponents as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: No. 6 Man | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...thesis drawings of J. L. Cannon who graduated at Mid-Years and who won the Robinson Travelling Fellowship, will be shown. The subject of the thesis which was developed in some twelve drawings, is "An Airport." The studies include perspective drawings, ground plans of the landing fields, and a complete development of an airport to meet the increasing demands of air travel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBITIONS TO PORTRAY WORK OF YEAR | 6/7/1929 | See Source »

...pacific means for the settlement of disputes or conflicts, etc., etc." Super-pledge was longer than super-treaty. The World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches was the name under which the 186 signatories placed themselves. Among U. S. signatories were such notables as Bishop James Cannon Jr., Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman, Bishop James Edward Freeman, Dean William Scarlett. Among famed Britishers were Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz, Dean William Ralph Inge, Bishop Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Randall Thomas Baron Davidson, onetime Archbishop of Canterbury. Among famed U. S. Churchmen who did not sign were such men as Dr. Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: People of Good Will | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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