Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away!" ordered Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South...
...campaign of Alfred E. Smith for election to the Presidency is for most citizens a matter of history. It is not mere history to James Cannon Jr., 70-year-old Methodist Bishop, who has abhorred alcoholic drink since Ulysses Grant was President. He might have forgotten 1928 but that: 1) a Senate committee called him in 1930 to inquire why he had not reported $48,000 contributed to his anti-Smith campaign; 2) he was indicted under the Corrupt Practices Act in 1931; 3) after his three-year battle to outlaw the indictment the Supreme Court declared it valid...
Newfoundland law forbids the sealing fleet to put out until March 8, when the seals' whelping season is over. Then St. John's sends the ships off, each jammed by 100 to 300 swilers, with cheers, bunting, band music and cannon fire. Swilers work on shares and the trip to the seal herds is a bitter race. Arrived, the swilers swarm out over the ice with their long, hooked gaffs, begin bashing in seals' skulls right & left. Swilers never shoot seals, except in self-defense against an angry, sharp-toothed male, but they sometimes make...
When in May 1869, on a bare shoulder of Utah the late great Leland Stanford swung a silver maul at a golden spike (which he missed), history was made. The fire bell in Sacramento rolled to the rope. The first of 220 cannon shots was fired on Fort Hill, San Francisco. A two-mile parade stumbled into step in Omaha. Decorations blazed from the wooden lamp posts of Chicago. The chimes-master of Trinity Church at the head of Wall Street in New York played "Old Hundred" on his clanking choir, and President U. S. Grant received a telegram reading...
Bishop James Cannon, Jr., and his secretary, Ada L. Burroughs, go on trial in District of Columbia Supreme Court tomorrow on charges of violating the cor- rupt practices act in connection with contributions to a fund to defeat Alfred E. Smith for the Presidency...