Word: cannonism
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Three things helped turn the tide. One was Johnson's success in convincing Congress that he had really eliminated all the fat. Another was the death in April of House Appropriations Committee Chairman Clarence Cannon, who had always encouraged Passman...
...Cannon's successor was Texas Demo crat George Mahon, who has voted against aid only once in his 30-year congressional career. The third was the performance of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in preliminary hearings before Passman's subcommittee...
...first stops was the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. There and in later meetings in two parks with a couple of Soviet colonels, he handed over detailed descriptions of the Mark VII nuclear weapon, the 280-mm. atomic cannon and an 8-in. nuclear gun. For his trouble, he was given $200 and told to use the money to travel to Cuba...
Cardinal Bea was last in Boston in March of 1963 to receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Cannon and Civil Law at the Boston College Centennial...
Bible (Nev.) Gore (Tenn.) Cannon (Nev.) Yarborough (Texas) Edmondson (Okla...