Word: cannonism
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When Roy L. Williams, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, was convicted last week in Chicago's U.S. District Court of conspiring to bribe Senator Howard W. Cannon of Nevada, he was not exactly breaking with Teamster tradition. In 1957 the union's president, David Beck, was found guilty of embezzlement, larceny and income tax evasion. Beck's successor, Jimmy Hoffa, got 13 years in 1964 for jury tampering, fraud and conspiracy. Williams, 67, had thrice before escaped federal conviction. Said Chief Government Prosecutor Douglas R. Roller after the verdict, "The message of the jury...
...wall of their kitchen is a sampler, which Paul had made to commemorate a remark by Joanne "that seemed appropriate at the time." It says, "I will regulate my life. JWN." The sampler shows a lit light bulb and an exploding cannon: husband's view of wife's character. Since then Joanne has attended est sessions and resolved to stop "choosing to be in Paul's shadow" and to stop apologizing for being what she calls "a creative dilettante." Says she: "As I look back, I think what I really wanted was to have a life with...
...Americans assumed prosperity would last forever in those days. Cannon said...
Reagan's own life supported his optimism Cannon noted. At the height of the Depression he landed a $100 a week job in 1937 when it was the dream of every American to get any job in Hollywood Reagan casually auditioned and received a role...
Reagan's practical intelligence was the deducted from experience," Cannon said, "He feels the system has worked for him." The journalist cited this mentality to explain Reugan's economic programs which Cannon said were designed to make deeper and swifter recoveries than actually possible...