Word: coxes
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Even to U.S. citizens long inured to political stinks, the Cox Committee's investigation of the Federal Communications Commission was becoming slightly nauseous last week. When Congress set up the committee to review the functions of FCC, backbiting Gene ("Goober") Cox-then (and still) charged by FCC with accepting an illegal fee from a Georgia broadcasting station-wangled himself the chairmanship. At the first public hearing Chairman Cox promised "an impartial and wholly constructive" investigation...
Last week's public hearings in Manhattan were fair samples of Committee tactics. Cox & Co. professed to be mightily upset by FCC's recent pressure on foreign-language broadcasting stations. They charged that FCC, with power to withhold or revoke licenses, was forcing station managers to fire broadcasters, take on others favorable to FCC "politics." By control of personnel, they added, FCC was censoring broadcasts...
...Philadelphia Phillies' brand-new owner Bill Cox (TIME, July 5) last week fired one manager and hired another. Observers were far from certain why he dumped the successful 46-year-old boy wonder "Bucky" Harris for the barrel-chested old Brooklynite Freddy Fitzsimmons. But they were dead sure that he had done it badly...
...newspapers knew Harris had been fired before Harris found out about it. Twenty-four Phillies got up a strike petition demanded that Cox reinstate Harris-so that Harris could quit before he was fired. Cox apologized saying that the bounce had not reflected on Harris' "ability as a baseball manager." Harris very decently told his ex-players to do it for Fitz. They did, breaking the eleven-game winning streak (longest in either league) of the world champion St. Louis Cards...
While the shouting died, the mystery remained (the seventh-place Phillies under Harris-his first year-had already won 39 games, had won only 42 all last year). Sour rumor said that Brooklyn's Branch Rickey was really running Philadelphia's Bill Cox, that Rickey was lining up Bucky Harris against a day when Rickey could get rid of Brooklyn's noisy manager Leo Durocher...