Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With thousands of cheering people blackening the windows and house-hops, stately cuirassiers of the Royal Guard on prancing horses curvetting beneath triumphal arches, bands blaring the Marcia Reale, His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy, last week entered his loyal City of Fiume. The cannon roared the salute of 21 guns as the King, accompanied by Admiral Thaon de Revel, Minister of Marine, and General of Police de Bono, rode over streets paved with flowers, to the City Hall, where Dr. Grossich, Provincial Governor, made the address of welcome. After four turbulent years Fiume was annexed...
...other speakers will be Professor Harvey N. Davis, G. '03, who will discuss the "Industrial Uses of Fire," and Professor Walter B. Cannon '96, whose topic will be "Regulation of Body Temperature...
...Passed a bill to lend to William and Mary College two British cannon captured at Yorktown. ¶ Agreed to a bill, previously passed, but amended by the Senate, to give to Hawaii the right to participate with the States in aid furnished by the Federal Government for road building, vocational training, maternity and child hygiene, farm loans. ¶ Passed a bill providing for incorporation of the G. A. R. ¶ Passed, 228 to 142, the McKenzie bill authorizing the acceptance of Henry Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals. ¶ Passed a resolution calling for an investigation of the Shipping...
...serve as a third class gunner's mate on the U. S. S. Yosemite in the Spanish War. He returned to civilian life and entered the Michigan House of Representatives. From there he went to Congress for six years, 1905-1911, where he was a member of Uncle Joe Cannon's machine, stuck by it through the great fight of 1910, and went down to defeat on its account. Then came April, 1917, and another war. Denby was 47, and weighed better than 200 pounds. What could he do for his country? He promptly enlisted as a private...
...Uncle Joe" Cannon...