Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand, our opponents have lost none of their fighting force and have a number of additions of great strength. Garrett, and Garner, and Pou, and Crisp, and Rayburn will be joined by Rainey, and Hull, and Cannon [Clarence Cannon of Missouri], whose profound knowledge of parliamentary law is familiar to us all. We, as a party, will have our work cut out for us if we are to emerge from the parliamentary battles of the next session with credit to ourselves and to our party, and it cannot be done without co-operation and teamwork...
...sealed forever Johnson's claims to the heavyweight championship; but they showed him to be one of the most unflinching fighters that ever wore a glove; he will always be somebody's sparring partner. Renault showed considerable skill but no vestige (in either hand) of the crushing cannon ball which alone can dent the Dempsey crown...
...have not limited our experimentation and testing at Ft. Bragg entirely to this light cannon. We have been developing a new mountain gun, 105 mm. howitzers, 155 mm. howitzers and guns, eight inch and 240 mm. howitzers. In all these guns an increase in range is sought, and, as compared with the guns in use at the close of the war, this end has been partially gained, largely by means of improving the powder, fuses, and projectiles...
Married. Miss Helen Cannon Le Seure of Danville, Ill., granddaughter of ex-Speaker Joseph G. Cannon of the House of Representatives (TIME, March 3), to Dorsey Richardson of Baltimore, Director General for Europe of the U. S. Lines, in London...
...Administrative Boards in the University are announced for 1923-24: for the Medical School, President Lowell, Dean Edsall, ex officio, chairman, Professors Algernon Coolidge '81, Hans Zinsser, H. W. Cushing Med. '95, Reid Hunt, Burt Wolbach '03, W. B. Cannon '96, C. M. Campbell, and F. W. Peabody '03, Associate Professors J. L. Bremer '96, and Worth Hale, and Dr. Kenneth D. Blackfan; for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Professor C. H. Haskins Hon, '08, Dean, and Professor G. F. Moore Hon, '06, G. L. Kittredge '82, E. P. Kohler, W. F. Osgood '86, J. H. Woods...