Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bargain Counter. The man responsible for the Quaker uprising is bustling, chronically cheerful William Drought Cox, a 33-year-old Manhattan lumber broker, who bought the Philadelphia franchise last winter at a forced-sale bargain price (reportedly $40,000 down and notes for $200,000 of back debts...
...Cox's youthful enthusiasms have run helter-skelter since he left Yale in 1929. First, deciding to dabble in politics, he published a pamphlet called The Standard Political Handbook, sold it to the Sun Oil Co. for a filling-station handout. Ten years ago he bought the rights to the New York Sun's famed Christmas editorial, "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus," gets a royalty each time it is reprinted. When his lumber deals began to pile up a neat fortune, he bought a bankrupt professional football club, the New York Yankees, which shuddered...
...Wonder. But Lumberman Cox was no babe in the woods. He was smart enough to listen to the manager he had hired: the onetime Boy Wonder, Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, who has learned plenty in the 19 years since he led the Washington Senators to a world championship...
...strode into Quito's central police headquarters, demanded a trial. Instead he was whisked off to the village calaboose at Guaranda. On May 23 President Arroyo del Rio ordered the disconsolate Pepe released for three days to attend the funeral of a Chilean uncle, distinguished Dr. Victor Eastman Cox...
...Said Georgia's labor-hating, liberal-hating, New Deal-hating Eugene ("Goober") Cox: "A sorry bid for the Negro vote. . . . Remembering what the Negro cost you [Republicans] following the Civil War, I am surprised you want him back...