Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome, so that he would not be followed by the more prominent correspondents whose dispatches would be considered proof that he had said what he was going to say. This was nothing less than a verbal declaration of war on Ethiopia, delivered from the top of a cannon at Salerno to troops as they were about to embark. On the way to Salerno the flying Dictator who piloted his own plane passed through an electric storm. Lightning charges collected on the wireless antennae, shocked the radio operator into a faint, but the big trimotored ship roared safely on. Amateur correspondents...
...Renamed the Gordon C. Greene for "Ma" Greene's husband, she was ready last week, with 100 passengers and 700 tons of whiskey, soap and paint, to re-open steamboat passenger service between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh (500 miles). Rivermen gave her an oldtime sendoff. A deck-sweep fired a cannon. Forty Negro roustabouts sang, "Gwineter wuk on a steamboat till I dies." Peacock proud, "Ma" Greene took a turn at the wheel, then settled down to sewing. Four days later the Gordon C. Greene splashed into Pittsburgh...
Annie Jump Cannon, Curator of Astronomical Photographs at the Harvard Observatory, received an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Oglethorpe University yesterday evening...
With the exception of King George V of England, Miss Cannon was the first person in the world to be elected an honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society of London. Among other honors she has received are Henry Draper medal of scientific achievement and the establishment in her honor of the Annie J. Cannon award for distinguished women astronomers...
Exhibitors last week ranged from big companies like Cannon Mills (towels), Owens-Illinois (glassware) and New Haven Clock to little fellows like Protection Products, Toy Tinkers, O-Pan-Top Manufacturing and Thunderbird Aircraft. Buyers were Armour, Swift, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Procter & Gamble, Wrigley, General Foods, etc., etc. Biggest dispenser of premiums, with an annual appropriation of some $2,000,000. is supposed to be Quaker Oats Co. For four Quaker Oats box tops or one top and a dime, the company has lately distributed no less than 350,000 model airplanes made by Scrambled Eggs, Inc. A newcomer...