Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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House High Jinks. Emerging from cob-nosed Clarence Cannon's Appropriations Committee, the resolution touched off a long, loud partisan debate with many a tongue in cheek and many a wink. It is only "common courtesy," said Mississippi's Jamie Whitten, to invite the Administration to indicate where to cut its own budget. Complained Tennessee Democrat Ross Bass: "We are faced with this unusual situation because it is the first time in the history of our nation that a President has submitted a budget for the opera tion of the Government; yet neither he nor his Secretary...
Uber Alles. Near San Francisco, police bagged Drugstore Clerk Haig Terzian for possessing a marijuana cigarette, made a routine check of his property, found: one Mauser pistol, three cases of dynamite and caps, five hand grenades, a tear-gas gun, a smoke bomb, a 4-ft. brass cannon, a Nazi uniform, two swastika banners, 15 unregistered machine guns...
MODERN Republicanism," business leaders and Congressmen have suddenly discovered to their horror, is more than just a progressive political movement. It is also a record peacetime budget. The House Appropriation Committee's Veteran Chairman Clarence Cannon says that he cannot recall anything like the current public outcry against the budget, and dozens of Senators and Congressmen are purposefully sharpening their paring knives. For how much they hope to cut, and where, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Cut That Budget...
...have received personal letters about the budget from nearly every state in the union," said Missouri's Clarence Cannon to his colleagues in the House, "and every one of them urges a reduction." Oldtimer Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has seen 34 federal budgets come and go over the years, but he cannot recall anything like the current public outcry against President Eisenhower's $71.8 billion fiscal-1958 budget, biggest in the nation's peacetime history...
...children born during rainstorms. In Monaco's pink-walled palace, Princess Caroline Louise Marguerite, 8 lbs. 3 oz., uttered her first wail, set off a chain reaction including a radio broadcast by her nervous father, Prince Rainier III, 33, a 21-gun salute from two ancient cannon, harbor whistles, bonfires, street dancing and a torrent of free champagne. No longer would Monacans worry that Rainier would die without an heir, a catastrophe that might have eventually subjected them to France's high taxes and military draft as the prizes of a French annexation. After the easy birth, Princess...