Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Wallace Bennett Cannon, 38, son of Methodist Bishop James Cannon Jr.; of a gastric ulcer; in Hampton...
...Observatory's 69-in. at Delaware, Ohio. Near Bloemfontein, South Africa Harvard owns a 60-incher. The Harvard observatories at Bloemfontein and Harvard (the town) are practically equidistant from the equator, positions which give Harvard well-nigh perfect opportunity to rake the heavens and amplify patient Dr. Annie Jump Cannon's stupendous catalog of the stars (more than 225,000 spectra already...
...Geography for mistakes; but even a fellow-amateur may hit on some. The graphic sketches and three-dimensional maps are often effective, enlightening, sometimes merely unscientific and cheap, for example a drawing of Fujiyama with a tree in the foreground captioned "The Old Japan"; the same drawing with a cannon substituted for the tree, captioned "The New Japan." Author Van Loon's bright chapter headings catch the eye, may engage many a reader: "Bulgaria, the soundest of all Balkan countries, whose butterfly-collecting King bet on the wrong horse during the Great War and suffered the consequences"; "Rumania, a country...
...Pont (explosives), George Horace Lorimer (Satevepost), Wilfred Washington Fry (N. W. Ayer & Son), J. Howard Pew (Sun Oil), Howard Heinz (pickles), William Cooper Procter (Ivory soap), George Mathew Verity (American Rolling Mill), Harvey S. Firestone Jr. (tires), Paul Weeks Litchfield (Goodyear), James Dinsmore Tew (Goodrich), Charles A. Cannon (towels), Samuel Clay Williams (Reynolds Tobacco), A. D. Geoghegan (Wesson Oil), Fred Wesley Sargent (Chicago & Northwestern), John Stuart (Quaker Oats), Fred Pabst (Cheese), Alvan Macauley (Packard), Frank Chambless Rand (International Shoe), Robert L. Lund (Listerine), Charles Donnelly (Northern Pacific), Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser (lumber), Carl Raymond Gray (Union Pacific), William Stamps Farish (Humble...
...continued: "Now I believe in the intrepid soul of the American people; but I believe also in its horse-sense. ... I, too, believe in individualism . . . but I don't believe that in the names of that sacred word a few powerful interests should be permitted to make industrial cannon-fodder of the lives of half the population of the United States. I believe in the sacredness of private property, which means that I do not believe it should be subjected to the ruthless manipulation of professional gamblers in the stock-markets. . . . "I propose an orderly, explicit and practical group...