Word: cannonism
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...Missouri's Democratic Representative Clarence Cannon is gnarled, grouchy, and filled with angry energy. When he complains into House microphones about the wastrel ways of Government, the New Frontiersmen get worried-with good reason...
Gradually the members of the House learned to think for themselves. Rotating Representatives every two years went out of fashion in most states; seniority provided members with an expertise that could not easily be challenged anywhere else in the Government. In 1910 the members rebelled against Speaker Joe Cannon, and much of his enormous power was shifted to various committees. These committees have occasionally become tyrants in their own right and bottled up bills they did not like. Rules Committee Chairman Adolph Sabath once faked a heart attack when pressure was put on him to put a resolution...
...while, the Republicans did surprisingly well in their fight. The 17 G.O.P. members of the Appropriations Committee present voted against the bill-and, with the help of five conservative Democrats including Chairman Clarence Cannon of Missouri, they turned it down, 22 to 19. That action caused consternation inside the Kennedy Administration. Said a White House aide: "It looked as if we were really behind the eight ball...
...something to be blue about. But success now altered the atmosphere. Stax engineers tried hard to get a bluesy ''down-home" sound, and an English professor named John Quincy Wolf stood by as a consultant on ethnic authenticity. The Voice of America even sent a reporter to Cannon, armed with a tape recorder and an only-in-America enthusiasm: "This could be the start of a brand-new career for you!'' Gus set the man straight with the deflating honesty that comes from long years of living Gus Cannon's life...
...will broadcast its Gus Cannon story to Europe, Africa and the Near East this month. An original song or two will be played, with Gus doing the singing, and someone will warmly recall all the more attractive details of his success story. But, having discreetly pronounced Gus's own all-inclusive account of his life "unintelligible," the VOA will avoid telling the world the complete story of how a man gets to be a folk-music hero at 79-down home in Memphis...