Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cannon was still sure that Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield was bluffing in his threat to curtail mail services if Congress did not vote him a $47 million supplemental appropriation for the current fiscal year (TIME, April 15). Cannon was wrong: Summerfield was not bluffing...
...sales figures had been at his prosperous Chevrolet agency back in Flint, Mich. The Post Office books simply showed that the department was about to run out of money-with three months still to go in the fiscal year. Thus, while the House was still listening to Clarence Cannon's cries of bluff, Summerfield issued the orders that 1) eliminated, effective last week, all regular deliveries on Saturdays, 2) closed all Post Office windows on Saturdays, 3) drastically cut Post Office window hours on Mondays through Fridays, 4) limited downtown business-mail deliveries to two a day, 5) placed...
...convinced that Summerfield was not bluffing, the House Appropriations Committee rushed through an approval of $41 million, and privately urged Summerfield to postpone his decrees on the promise that the House itself would virtually meet his demands before Easter recess this week. But Summerfield stood fast. Sniffed Clarence Cannon: "He's been breaking the law all along.* I don't see why he suddenly has become so pious that he can't keep essential service going.'' Mailman Summerfield refused to budge until he got cash on the barrelhead. And he took the opportunity to remind...
...last flat light tipped the orange trees and spacious rose gardens, a car swung off the main road from Rabat and up the long drive to the big, Norman-style royal villa. His Majesty Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, Sultan of Morocco, stepped out just as two cannon shots sounded through the still twilight air, signaling sunset and the end of Ramadan's day-long fast...
...fully half its length, the Overture builds and rebuilds tocrashingly percussioned climaxes followed by aimless twitterings of clarinets, culminates in the boom of a cannon. ("If the nature of the coda seems cursory . . . one has to remember that Arnold always stops when he has nothing further...