Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less brightly the Harvard attackers found a new brand with which to keep the fire blazing. Plan E, their latest point of offensive, struck essentially at local political rule, and since Harvard men were prominent in its organization, a direct connection with the University was made possible. The political cannon trained their muzzles on Plan E, and finding the range to be the same as that of Harvard, banged away all the more happily in that knowledge. The result has been such a cloud of ill will between Cambridge and Harvard that the real objective--Plan E--has been completely...
...letter to the "Alumni Bulletin," Walter B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology, defends his support of aid for Spain as follows...
Richard H. Miller '05, professor of Clinical Medicine in the Medical School, protested in a letter to the "Alumni Bulletin," published yesterday, against an appeal for funds for Loyalist Spain which used the name of Walter B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology, as an apparent sponsor. Miller's letter called Loyalist Spain "not a democracy, but a communist state...
...letter which I received on September 29, 1938, a copy of which was apparently sent to every graduate of the Harvard Medical School by "The Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy." The letter consisted of an appeal to contribute money as a tribute to Dr. Walter B. Cannon to be given to Dr. Juan Negrin, Premier of the so-called Spanish, republic. It says, 'we hope that you will want to share in this tribute to an eminent doctor and statesman, in honor of a beloved American colleague and champion of democracy'. I wish to protest against this...
...Boylston prizes for debating and oratory, and for the last 16 years he has stepped to the microphone with only scribblings for script. His most exciting ad lib was the first broadcast ever made of war-from a bullet-ridden haystack between Spanish Leftist and Rightist lines, with cannon fire for sound effects. Not scared by war, he was not to be scared by a war scare. His comments throughout were calm, hopeful, accurate...