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Cavendish Welles Cannon is the State Department's middle-aged and ailing Balkan expert. Hardworking, tired-eyed Mr. Cannon knows Hungary, Bulgaria and Greece intimately, has only a secondhand knowledge of the pro-Russian Czechs and the Yugoslavs...
...originally a coalition party made up of "small enterprisers," of farm and labor groups. Its labor strength was so important that at times the G.O.P. looked like an out-&-out labor party. Labor deserted the G.O.P. only after T.R., when Republican leadership passed to William Howard Taft, "Uncle Joe" Cannon and Charles Evans Hughes. Ergo, writes Dr. Binkley, the No. 1 job facing Republicans today is to get the labor and lower-income vote back. He summarizes: > "Rapidly growing organized labor, voting the Democratic ticket almost 3-to-1, will not be impressed by cautiously phrased platform planks perfunctorily approving...
Heavy rains came down upon the eastern battleground. The mud clutched at cannon and tank, swathed marching men's feet with a heavy, sticky cast, and blackend the battles' dead. But, from Velikie Luki down, nine army groups, including perhaps 27 armies, early this week pushed and plunged at the German Dnieper line - at Kiev and Melitopol, Zaporozhe and Dnepropetrovsk, Gomel and Cherkasi...
...Uncle Joe" Cannon, who held the Speakership from 1903-10, a minority member truly said: "I have seen him wield more power than the President." Uncle Joe owed much of his power to Maine's resolute Tom Reed, who had so rigged House procedure (the famed Reed's Rules) that the Speaker became, in effect, a dictator. Uncle Joe reaped the whirlwind in the spirited "revolution of 1910," when the House, under the prodding of a young Representative from Nebraska named George Norris, rewrote the rules...
News of rapid progress sent Moscow into an orgy of optimism. Cannon boomed without cease, to herald victories. The Russians poured into the streets, shouted in delight, embraced strangers. And, for the first time, Stalin uttered the magic words: "In the direction of Kiev...