Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate to demand an investigation of corruption charges against Arthur R. Gould, who had just taken oath of office as Senator from Maine. On the second day, the President's message was read, and the House adjourned in memory of onetime Speaker Joseph G. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon. On the third day, came the President's annual budget message...
...called such, now that "Old Bob" LaFollette is dead. From the farm Mr. Norris went through teaching and the law to Congress. In 1910 his fame burst like a Nebraskan sunflower when he led the fight in the House that overthrew the dictatorship of Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon (TIME, Nov. 22). Since 1913 he has been in the Senate. He admits no Republican or Democratic or third party prejudices; no mind but his own controls his booming voice. This autumn he swung into Pennsylvania to herald the campaign of William Bauchop Wilson, Democrat; he is just as liable...
...Reed Rules" drawn up in 1890 by Speaker Thomas B. ("Tsar") Reed, Representatives William McKinley and Joseph Cannon. * Founded by Joseph Cannon and his brother half a century ago, it made them worth more than a million dollars...
With such a background young Cannon went to law school in Cincinnati and thence to Danville, Ill., a land of Lincoln legends, destined in another half century to grow big with Cannon legends. There he embraced Republicanism and carried it through 46 years' service in the House. His diversion, he said, was: "Raising the tariff in the daytime and raising the ante at night...
Died. Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 90, famed Speaker of the House; in the midst of a deep sleep; at Danville...