Word: cannonization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pianist Harney, who had toured the West and Midwest long before he started the craze in Manhattan, launched a nation-wide school of ragtime composers, active during the early 1900s. Prominent followers included Lucky Roberts (Pork and Beans), Scott Joplin (Maple Leaf Rag), Northrup & Confare (Cannon Ball), George Botsford (Texas Steer Rag), and Earl K. Smith (Hot Ashes). Oldtimers who heard Harney do his stuff, recall that his playing sounded very much like that of Zez Confrey (Kitten on the Keys), a little like Fats Waller...
...young missionaries in foreign lands at all times, the Church proposes to train them in short; wave techniques, send them their instructions by radio, hear in return how the programs-news, music, lectures, little religion-are received. The Church's fourth man-in-command, Presiding Bishop Sylvester Quayle Cannon, informed the F.C.C. that $1,500,000 is immediately available to build the station. Furthermore, the Church makes $40,000 to $50,000 a year from its interest in Salt Lake commercial Station KSL. An examiner for the F.C.C. therefore reported that "the applicant is financially, legally, technically, and otherwise...
Even then, despite its small staff, TIME kept its readers abreast of the news, if not ahead of it. During the first six months TIME'S cover subjects included not only the figures of 1923 (Uncle Joe Cannon, Warren Harding, Eleanor Duse, King Fuad, Hugo Stinnes, Andrew Mellon, E. M. House) but some who belong very much to 1938: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mustafa Kamâl Attatürk, Burton K. Wheeler, Benito Mussolini, John L. Lewis...
...floor. As the clerk called the roll after a day of historic debate, the first woman Representative in U. S. history, and then the only woman in Congress, Montana's Jeannette Rankin, sat silent in her seat instead of voting. Before the second roll call, Uncle Joe Cannon went to her side, begged her, as the Representative of U. S. womanhood, to cast her decision one way or the other. On the second roll call, Representative Rankin, with tears in her eyes, stood up to say: "I want to stand by my country but I cannot vote...
Walter B. Cannon, George Higginson professor of Physiology, is behind the move to bring Angna Entors, famed New York pantomimist, to Cambridge for the first time. Proceeds from the benefit recital will be used to aid the Spanish democracy...