Word: joe
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Revolt of the Southerners. For half a century beginning in 1858, the Speaker was himself a member of the Rules Committee. Even when the revolt of 1910 against tyrannical "Uncle Joe" Cannon deprived the Speaker of his place on the Rules Committee, it still remained pretty much under the control of the Speaker as the leader of the majority party...
...Father Joe Kennedy's big bash at a downtown restaurant followed Frankie's Gala. An exhausted Jackie Kennedy went home, but all the rest of the clan, surrounded by the Hollywood troupe and scores of Kennedy friends, crowded in for a sedate but delightful few hours of champagne, caviar, hors d'oeuvres and supper. It was 4 a.m. before Jack Kennedy slipped into...
...Father Joe?" Shorn of snow, shining in the sun's glare, the wide avenues and the Capitol plaza bristled with tens of thousands of onlookers in bright stocking caps, fur coats and warm blankets as protection against the 20° temperature. The big inaugural platform on the steps of the Capitol's east portico was studded with eight white Corinthian columns matching those of the Capitol itself. U.S. flags whipped in the stiff wind above the great marble office buildings and the Library of Congress...
...platform filled with the great figures of Washington and the nation: the Justices of the Supreme Court, the members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, the diplomatic corps, the new Cabinet officers, the Joint Chiefs of Staff-and, of course, the Kennedy family. "Is that Father Joe over there?" asked Arkansas' Senator John McClellan. "I do believe it is." It was. Joe Kennedy, beaming and laughing, was telling his friends that "this is what I've been looking forward to for a long time. It's a great...
...Wackiest Ship in the Army. A World War II farce about a rickety schooner's passage through a Jap-infested ocean is floated only through the splendiferous shenanigans of Jack Lemmon, whose comic art portrays the hopelessly normal joe in hopelessly insane situations...