Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Married. Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 65, famed politician and stock gambler, a widower since 1928; to a Mrs. Helen Hawley McCallum, 45, Manhattan widow; at Christ Church, Mayfair, London...
...first entirely across it. That started an argument which could not be settled until, last week, they lined up again, their engines roaring and their stovepipe smokestacks belching smoke black as ink, 50 ft. behind the starting line at Fernbank dam, twelve miles below Cincinnati. A small cannon boomed; both started for the line, the Tom Greene accelerating with the quick pick-up that has made river-people call her "Hopping Tom." Nailed firmly on the front of the wheelhouse of the ''Hopping Tom," where stood young Capt. Tom Greene himself, were the gilded antlers that...
...Heard a report from the Senate judiciary sub-committee on lobbying relative to the testimony of Bishop James Cannon...
Rumors that Bucketeer Goldhurst had pleaded guilty to keep Bishop Cannon's name out of court, last week led Nebraska's Senator Norris, chairman of the Judiciary Committee who appointed the subcommittee on lobbying, to promise an investigation of a report that Goldhurst's sentence had been commuted to two yearn, and to find out "who is sponsoring appeals for clemency...
...ancient notion-a de-lusion-that, if a ship cannot escape a waterspout by moving out of its path, a shot fired into the column of water will cause it to collapse. Science has no record of this having actually been done, for the good reason that no cannon projectile (unless perhaps a large explosive shell timed exactly) would be big enough to disrupt the enormous vacuum which supports the water column...