Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relief bill, adopted the McNary-Haugen bill exactly as it came from the Senate. Thus, the delay of a conference was obliterated. The farm bloc, with grey-haired Representative Haugen at the helm, bowled over the regular Republican organization with steamroller tactics that recalled the days of "Uncle Joe" Cannon. The Cabinet. Having been informed that both houses of Congress had passed the McNary-Haugen bill, President Coolidge called for his Cabinet, found that it unanimously disapproved of the bill. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon had already made public his attitude in a detailed statement showing that the bill...
...Holcomb will be head patroness, it was announced by the committee. The other patronesses include Mrs. W. B. Cannon, Mrs. D. K. David, Mrs. A. L. Endicott, Mrs. O. D. Kellogg, Mrs. R. B. Merriman, Mrs. D. O. Swain, Mrs. J. S. P. Tatlock, Mrs. R. DeC. Ward, Mrs. E. C. Whiting and Mrs. B. F. Wright...
...Senators were confused by the contentions of religious bodies. Early in January the Senators received a telegram, signed by Bishop William T. Manning, Dr. S. Parkes Cadman and James Cannon Jr. It read: "Northern Baptist Church, Methodist Episcopal Church South, Reformed Church in their respective conventions and the bishops ot the Episcopal Church have denounced the Lausanne Treaty...
...foreigners would have to sail away, leaving $60,000,000 worth of property behind. Last week this new and surprising thought flared up in a chattering mob of Chinamen who had believed since birth that it was better to empty slops than .hear the white man's cannon...
...tinker with machinery; labor in the fields and shops; to buy equipment; go forth into the world. Nothing is closer to the heart of Mr. Davis than Mooseheart. He has a home there, and is always on hand for the colony's jubilees. The late "Uncle Joe" Cannon once called him the "Napoleon of Fraternity."* 'He knows nothing of golf, calls it an old man's game. 3) He went into politics. First he ran for town clerk of Elwood, Ind. His opponents, finding that his schooling consisted of one year, said that he was too ignorant...