Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Persimmony, parsimonious Missouri Democrat Clarence Cannon was at his pinch-mouthed, pinch-pursed best. "I have never known of a previous instance," snapped House Appropriations Committee Chairman Cannon, "in which a Government employee came up to the Capitol and issued an ultimatum to the House and Senate." Against that ultimatum, the "United States Congress, the greatest legislative body in the world, that stood up to Hitler, that stood up to Mussolini, that stood up to Stalin, stampeded like a regiment dissolving at Waterloo-before a Postmaster General...
Threats & Heartbreak. The subcommittee turned as purple as the magnolia blossoms on the Mall. Snorted Missouri Democrat Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee (who is well equipped to snort): "He is attempting to sandbag us with threats...
...Cannon (D-Mo.) told the House "don't be alarmed, don't be stampeded by Summerfield's demands. Cannon is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee...
...going to destroy the republic," Cannon said in a floor speech, if the postmaster general carries out his threat to curtail mail services drastically for the balance of the fiscal year...
Appetite whetted, Clarence Cannon's Appropriations Committee reconvened, lectured 18 agencies on buying new cars, hiring additional employees or constructing plush buildings, then cut their requests by $500 million. Feeling the shock hardest: the Veterans Administration, which took a $206 million slash...