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Other industries were equally jittery last week. Charles A. Cannon, president of the huge Cannon Mills, biggest U.S. towel-maker, called for voluntary price ceilings on cotton goods. This year's short cotton crop (an estimated 38% below 1949) has boosted raw cotton futures to 40.25? a Ib., highest in 30 years. Cannon feared that if cotton cloth prices followed suit, consumers would demand Government controls...
Missouri's gnarled, antique Democrat Clarence Cannon cried that there was no danger of attack and that, if there were, Government agencies should be moved to places like Chicago, Houston or Denver. Nebraska's G.O.P. Congressman A. L. Miller characterized the plan as a boondoggle cooked up to save the necks of 40,000 "Washington waffle-bottoms." This moved Maryland's Republican Edward T. Miller to a counterproposal: simply fire the 40,000 and use their wages to build a radar fence around...
...fragmentation bomb right behind her. The tank was engulfed in smoke and dirt. Ensign Profilet's plane followed with another 500-pounder. Just to make sure, Loranger clobbered her with a third bomb and we went after the truck. On his first run, Loranger came down with his cannon wide open, then pulled out of his dive and laid a bomb right in the truck bed. As we pulled up, we discovered he had not only disintegrated the truck but had also ripped up the whole road...
...House-Senate conference over the $34.5 billion omnibus appropriation bill, Senate Appropriations Chairman Kenneth McKellar, ancient (81) Tennessee feudist, tangled with an old enemy-House Appropriations Chairman Clarence Cannon, 71. McKellar yelled that Missouri's Cannon was "blind . . . stupid . . . pigheaded" and altogether "goddamned." Cannon, who several years ago traded blows with New York's brass-lunged John Taber, started after McKellar. The tottering McKellar grabbed his long-handled gavel and got ready to swing. Colleagues managed to keep the two old cocks apart...
Last week, one of Editor Wechsler's staffers read the boss an angry lesson on the relationship between Communists in Korea and Communists in Union Square, and Editor Wechsler ran the staffer's blast. Korea Post War Correspondent Jimmy Cannon, sometime sports-page columnist and a G.I. in World War II, wrote: "It seemed . . . that the rioters of Union Square had gone far beyond the rights granted them in the Constitution. They were giving aid and comfort to the enemy and they should have been thrown in jail and tried for treason. Don't give me that...