Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anti-Saloon League of America. Among those present in Washington last week to organize the all-embracing Co operative Committee were Bishop Thomas Nicholson (president) and Francis Scott McBride (general superintendent) of the Anti-Saloon League; President Ella Alexander Boole of the W. C. T. U.; Chairman (Bishop) James Cannon Jr., of the Board of Temperance and Social Service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and President (Bishop) William Fraser Mc Dowell of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Second-in-command under Chairman Callahan on the new committee will be Dr. Arthur...
Ride In Philadelphia one Frank Cannon spied a trolley car standing outside a restaurant in which its motorman was supping. He hopped aboard, clanged away at full speed. When arrested several suburbs away he was not perturbed, but said he had gratified a suppressed desire...
Married. Edward Lee Cannon of Washington, son of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; to Miss Elizabeth Roberts of New Bern, N. C.; at New Bern...
Modern, they read of "the late Discoveries and Improvements of Arts and Sciences. . . . Once there was War without Powder, Shot, Cannon or Mortars . . . the mob made bonfires without Squib . . . the Lover was forced to send his Mistress a Deal Board for a Love Letter...
...into the boat through a great opening in the bow. In the ports of New Zealand, Tasmania and Australia, these vessels are met by the small "killer" boats which bring in the whales. In addition to airplanes, modern "factory" ships use radio telephones, while the small "killers" carry a cannon that shoots a time-fused, explosive, 120-lb. harpoon. Once splashing and spouting in all the seas, whales are now found plentifully only in small areas of the Arctic and Antarctic...