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...were looking feebler than usual after rejecting Reorganization, they learned that Assistant Capitol Architect Horace D. Rouzer had told a House Appropriations subcommittee that Representatives might rest their legs as well as their jaws when they shuttle through the tunnel next year. Commented Missouri's Congressman Joseph B. Shannon: "I've seen many members who had reached 70 or 72 years old, and they just couldn't make the grade. I think it hurried them to their graves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Restful Shuttle | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...scoring of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Boettiger in his column Monday, Aug. 9 [TIME, Aug. 23! ? I'll bet you that orchid you wear that John Boettiger saw it and had "the courage not to care" whether Pegler's column appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. MURIEL SHANNON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 6, 1937 | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...river Shannon flows down the center aisle, shamrocks float from the ceiling, and Loew's ushers shout "Ireland for the Irish" at the State and Orpheum this week. Clark Gable's cars and Myrna Loy's nose star in a pea-soup fog--that's all there is to "Parnell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...deprecates as the usual seasonal business is always followed by a decline in the last half of the year. One thing Sir George Schuster did on his tie-strengthening visit was to approve a $1,000,000 Lipton advertising campaign, biggest since 1929, planned by husky, friendly William Wigmore Shannon, general manager of the U. S. company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tea Tie | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...those indicted were mere cogs in the political machine. Only one big shot has been subpoenaed-Representative Joe Shannon. He ran one of his own candidates against a Pendergast candidate in the primary as he sometimes does. He complained afterward of "rough stuff, kidnapping, beating of my workers and the worst padding and fraudulent voting I have seen in my long political career." He departed for Washington before a subpoena could be served upon him. Said he: "Sure, I'll return to Kansas City if they want me." But a month went by. Last week he was finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Machine Busting | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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