Word: cannonization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were leaving him favorably disposed toward Senator Byrnes's proposal of a flat 10% cut in all appropriations except fixed charges (interest on public debt, veterans' pensions, Government contracts). But on the eve of the President's departure for Texas and tarpon, Missouri's Clarence Cannon, the senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, paid a White House visit. Returning to the Capitol, he promptly sponsored a 132-word resolution simply "impounding" 15% of all appropriations for fiscal 1938 and providing that "no amount so impounded and set aside shall be available for obligation unless...
Representative Cannon's indignation about organized baseball dates from 1920 when he was attorney for the Chicago White Sox players in baseball's most famed scandal. A onetime professional baseballer himself, he usually pitches in the annual House v. Congressional Press Gallery game. Basis of his complaint to Attorney General Cummings was that "if a player's contract expires and the . . . club owner submits a new contract... the player must either sign the contract... or he is forever barred from playing organized baseball. . . ." Since the existence of organized baseball depends on the existence of some form...
...they thought they deserved. Only remaining major holdouts last week were Yankee Pitcher Charles Ruffing who was demanding $1,000 more than the $16,000 Owner Jacob Ruppert thought he was worth, and First Baseman Adolph Camilli of the Phillies. Second symptom was a request by Representative Raymond J. Cannon of Wisconsin to U. S. Attorney General Homer Cummings to start anti-trust proceedings against owners of all organized U. S. baseball clubs on the grounds that they were operating a monopoly in restraint of trade...
...pious Abolitionist farmer in Indiana. His older brother went to the war and came back minus an arm. But Robert might have waited for the draft if his hero-brother had not stolen his girl from him. When that happened, he went off hoping for death at the first cannon's mouth. Long before he got into his first battle he learned that there was more to soldiering than stopping a bullet. A Creole camp-follower in Nashville did her share in dimming Diana's image. And in his first skirimish Robert found there were too many things...
...guns of the 60 tanks that fought with the [Leftist] infantry in the Brihuega battle-bursting in and against these rock piles made a nightmare of corpses. The small Italian tanks, armed only with machine guns, were as helpless against the medium-sized [Madrid] Government tanks, armed with cannon and machine guns, as Coast Guard cutters would be against armored cruisers...