Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carry an extra subject and are interested in securing their commission. Although the training received is mostly that of artillery, a man in the course spends the summer of his Junior year in Camp Ethan Allen. The camp is equipped to afford adequate training in the operation of cannon and regular ground maneuvers. It is in the camping period that the men get the most intimate contact with the actual practice of their study. A provisional battery is formed with the Yale unit in the camp. The first three weeks of the period are carried out in the post...
...Ford jokes. Suffragettes Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Evangelist Billy Sunday, the two-step, grizzly bear, bunny hug. Actress Lillian Russell, erection of Manhattan's Woolworth Building. Louis Bleriot's flight across the English Channel, nude "September Morn." dawn of psychoanalysis in the U. S., Politician "Uncle Joe" Cannon...
Edwin Cornell, 1928 "fat cat" whose $65,300 went to Bishop James Cannon Jr. to beat the Brown Derby in the South, this year gave...
...color. Current release, King Neptune, is a bizarre romance in which a brown boatload of pirates is punished in silly-symphonic fashion for molesting a collection of sleek mermaids with green tails. Blue fish bombard the pirate boat with caviar which they spit out of their mouths like cannon balls; flying fish, improved to resemble airplanes, take off smoothly from the flat spinal cord of a good-humored whale; octopi wave their arms like the propeller-blades of autogiros and silver swordfish saw down one mast of the pirates' boat. Finally Neptune causes a storm by stirring the water...
...ever since. He joined the Elks, made lodge speeches and friends, drifted into politics. In 1894 he was first elected to the House of Representatives where with one interruption he served for a dozen years. He learned political strategy under Speaker Joseph Gurney (''Uncle Joe'') Cannon who made him a trusted henchman. In 1908 he stepped out of the House to be beaten for the Indiana governorship by Thomas Riley Marshall, later Democratic vice president. Politically jobless, he reverted to law, became a lobbyist for the American Manufacturers Association. In 1913 the House investigators...