Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Equally egoistic was the funeral which Clemenceau demanded from France last week and which she humbly gave. "He asked that there be no state funeral," said Prime Minister Tardieu, "I need not say there will be none." In every French garrison, on every warship, in every French colony, cannon banged out a 21-gun salute while the Father of Victory was buried in a hole dug in a briar patch at his birthplace, Mouilleron-en-Pareds, a bleak region
...phantom army. Near Holmes was his neighbor and friend, Walter Olson, another Swedish-American. Alone in their fields at home they had often tried to decide which could husk fastest. They had 80 minutes now to husk in and they worked carefully, getting clean ears. When a second cannon-shot ended work Olson's pile of 25.27 bushels was about two pecks better than what Holmes had husked. Wild Clyde Tague of Guthrie County, Iowa, came in third...
...huskers, winners of sectional tournaments. They were young fellows in old work-clothes. Each husker had one bare hand and one hand in a glove equipped with a little steel hook or a sharp steel peg. They lined up facing the corn with their wagons and waited for the cannon-shot that would start them working...
Potent in downing the horrid thought that through Smith and Raskob the Democracy had been led into the camp of Mammon, was the pleasant effect of party affluence itself. Even more potent was last summer's disclosure that "Raskobism's" loudest foe, Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, South, was himself messily involved with a Manhattan bucket-shop (TIME, July 1). At a South Georgia Methodist conference last week the Rev. Bascom Anthony of Thomasville, got a resolution adopted to reduce the tenure of service of Methodist Bishops from life to four years. Cried...
...Nelson Robinson, Jr. Traveling Fellowship, established by the President and Fellows of Harvard College for 18 months of travel and study, is now held by James. Leonard Cannon '26, Julla Amory Appleton Fellowships, also for 18 months of travel and study, are held by Chester Orville Root and Cari Theodore Larson '25. Ralph Grady Gulley is holding one of the Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowships...