Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bearded Afghans moved mum as ghosts about Kabul last week, afraid of losing their ears, anxious not to be blown into bloody fragments from a cannon mouth. Their bandit-king, fierce, white-toothed, grinning Habibullah Khan, was in one of his wild rages. For weeks he has been stubbornly defending Kabul against the potent Nadir Khan, another ruthless seeker of the crown lost last winter by deposed King Amanullah, who is now in bitter exile in Italy (TIME, July 15). Last week Habibullah heard that one of his favorite generals had just been captured by the Nadir Khan. Cringing...
...Torn from the wall next day and blown from the mouth of a cannon...
Indian editors, commenting on the ways of Afghans, noted that while boiling in oil is a venerable Asiatic tradition, dating from the wars of Alexander with the Persians, blowing prisoners to bloody fragments from a cannon is a British invention instituted as the official punishment for mutinous Indians...
...house disposed of, Bishop Cannon last week hastened to Manhattan, caught the S. S. Olympic to Europe "to get as far away from politics as possible." Abroad he will attend: Universal Religious Peace Conference at Frankfurt-am-Main; Faith & Order Conference at Maloja; Life Work Conference at Eisenack. He will return in time to work in the Virginia election campaign in October...
Against him in the November election will run Prof. William Moseley Brown, 35, of Washington & Lee, nominated by a fusion of Republicans under C. Bascom Slemp and anti-Smith Democrats led by Bishop James Cannon Jr. (TIME, July 8). Bishop Cannon has attempted to make the campaign issue: "Wet-Raskobism." Facts to point the Cannon issue: Prof. Pollard was supported by Governor Harry Flood Byrd, Brown Derby advocate, and had himself stumped for Governor Smith. Facts to blunt the Cannon issue: Both candidates are Dry; both candidates are Protestant...