Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there was nothing delicate about the two French Revolution songs which closed the first half of the program. The Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus and soloists sang lustily (and well) and the orchestra was loud in Francois Gossee's rowdy arrangement of "La Marscillaise." The original score called for a cannon blast near end, but the pistol used in this performance was sufficiently starting...
...Constellation Bataan into the glare of massed floodlights at San Francisco airport. As he reached the ground, hundreds broke past police lines and surrounded him in a gabbling, jostling, hand-grabbing throng; they stayed around him as an Army band pumped unheard music, while officials pushed & shoved, and cannon banged out a 17-gun salute. It took 20 noisy minutes before the MacArthurs got into their...
When Commodore Vanderbilt, a smart railroad buccaneer himself, got a court injunction against the unholy three, they scooped $6,000,000 in cash out of the Erie treasury, scuttled across the Hudson to Jersey City. To keep Vanderbilt at bay, Fisk mounted three 12-lb. cannon on the docks outside the Erie's transplanted headquarters, donned an admiral's uniform to stage-dress his defiance. Meanwhile, foxy Jay Gould bribed the New York state legislature with $1,000,000 to legalize the fraudulent stock certificates...
...ruled by bottleneck. Reform bills were killed or emasculated in committee. So many died in the Judiciary Committee that it came to be known as "the Morgue." Immigration control, income tax, tariff revision and currency reform were strangled or mangled beyond recognition. "Not one cent for scenery," snorted Cannon when his own party proposed forest conservation...
...Speaker Yields. "You must lay down on Uncle Joe," Teddy Roosevelt was advised. "It will be a good deal like laying down on a hedgehog," grinned T.R. One day in 1910, nonetheless, the opposition did lay down on Uncle Joe for keeps. With some of Cannon's standpatters absent on a long weekend, Republican George Norris introduced a resolution shearing the Speaker of most of his vast powers. For three days, Cannon fought the inevitable, then yielded. His four-year "experiment with personal power," as Author Bolles calls it, was over...