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...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...
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...
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...
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...