Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looking a little peaked last week. WHO's chief supporter, the U.S., decided that it was tired of paying doctor bills. The House Rules Committee tabled indefinitely a bill that would have made the U.S. the 24th permanent U.N. member of WHO. Georgia's Committeeman Eugene ("Goober") Cox explained: "It was a manifestation of impatience with the U.S. joining these joint enterprises and then paying the full bill...
...rest of the boat seems in no danger of being undermanned. Commencement robbed the Crimson of Captain Bob Stone and Stu Clark as well as Cunningham, and cox Al Petite. This leaves--reading from bow to stern--Mike Scully, Dick Emmet, Gale, Frank Strong, and Captain Paul Knaplund. There are gaps at the Two, four, stroke, and cox slots. The latter is not problem, for Jayvee taskmaster Sam King is due for promotion...
...rights program with its proposed elimination of Jim Crowism on railroads and buses. Screams of rage and threats of revolt poured forth from Southern Democrats. Roared Mississippi's Senator James Eastland: "This proves that organized mongrel minorities control the Government." From the House floor, Georgia's Gene Cox chanted: "Sounds like the program of the Communist Party...
Eight years ago, the Constitution muffed a chance to buy both the rival Journal and Hearst's Georgian and thus dominate the Atlanta area. Instead, James M. Cox grabbed them. By killing the Georgian and adding its circulation to the Journal's, Cox made it a bigger (circ.231,000)-and more aggressive-daily than the Constitution...
...Cox's Ledge, off the Rhode Island coast, fishermen caught bottles of 20-year-old Scotch whiskey in their nets. They had found an area where prohibition rum runners had dumped their cargo when hard pressed by the Coast Guard...