Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Steirman, 36, who claims, "I've edited 1,000 second-rate magazines." Steirman announced plans to slip his new properties some pep pills. "The new Confidential won't look under beds, but it won't avoid a hot story either. Harrison had a homemade atomic cannon, but he just aimed it at one spot -Hollywood. There are other places -Madison Avenue, for instance...
...Insane Bickering." The Eisenhower plan got still another big boost, this one from Missouri's bulb-nosed Democratic Congressman Clarence Cannon, 79, chairman of the potent House Appropriations Committee, and a man who considers himself every bit as much a military expert as Carl Vinson. Rising on the House floor, Cannon delivered an old-fashioned stem-winder. "Who is better qualified." demanded Democrat Cannon, "in training, experience, and capacity than General Eisenhower? When it comes to military affairs involving the safety of the people and the survival of our form of government, he is a general, and I take...
When he sat down, after 48 minutes, Cannon got a standing ovation from most of the 150 Congressmen in the chamber. And it was in the face of such obviously growing sentiment for reorganization that Carl Vinson, above all else an eminently realistic politician, began backing down in his announced determination to scuttle the Eisenhower plan, started working with Nate Twining on a revision that would be acceptable both to the Administration and to Congress...
Tall and erect in a severe black vest and tail coat, Arturo Frondizi laid his hand on the Bible and swore to discharge his duties with "loyalty and patriotism." Cannon in the square outside boomed a 21-gun salute, and the 3,000 people jammed into the 1,000-seat Hall of Congress cheered the return of constitutional government after a decade of dictatorship and 31 months of military rule...
...entered the conference determined to stick by the traditional three-mile limit, first suggested by a Dutch scholar back in 1703 when that distance was about the maximum range of a cannon. Though cannon range is no longer a criterion, the U.S. still has powerful reasons for not wanting to see nations stretch their territorial claims farther and thus shrink by hundreds of thousands of miles the great body of water known as the High Seas. For one thing, argued U.S. Delegate Arthur Dean (Korean armistice negotiator and onetime law partner of John Foster Dulles), enemy submarines can find easier...