Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oscar Sidney Cox, 36, a tall, tweedy, drawling Yankee lawyer from Portland, Me., has a formal job in the Justice Department (where he is now helping prosecute the eight Nazi saboteurs) and an even bigger sideline as general counsel on Lend-Lease. He drafted the original Lend-Lease bill, has since helped administer it. He scrapes up supplies, gets them shipped as often as he can. A government career man since 1938, Oscar Cox has had many bosses in the Capital: they all call him "the smartest damn lawyer in Washington...
...good many from last year's Freshmen and upperclassmen have turned out at one time or another, but there has been no attempt to make up any boats. Tommy Boynton, last year's Varsity cox has been in charge of all the upper class boats but most of the time he has just lined them up in shells and sent them out for an informal workout...
...Ramspeck's friends know him as a conscientious worker who shuns social life, stays at home with his pipe and books. Even Georgia Neighbor Gene Cox, with whom Ramspeck has tangled on many a labor bill, praised Neighbor Ramspeck's ability. Pleased, too, was Leader McCormack, of Massachusetts. Said he of Southern Bob Ramspeck: "He has a national mind...
...woman defendant the night before. In Queens, L.I., a woman member of a jury that had just convicted a man & wife of petty larceny gave the couple $5 as a present. In Southport, N.C., among the names drawn for possible jury duty in the murder trial of Dorsey Cox was one pronounced ineligible: Dorsey Cox...
Aircraft Maker Glenn L. Martin said that battleships could be scrapped if the U.S. had enough big flying boats like his newly launched, titanic Mars. Old blue-water men kept their tempers. Rear Admiral Ormond L. Cox remarked during a reporter's visit to the Newport News yards that if the other fellow has battleships, then we've got to have them too. Jane's, the British annual handbook on fighting ships, credited Japan with five new 40,000-ton battleships built or on the ways, plus battle-cruisers of 12,000-15,000 tons. Down Battleship...