Word: gene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago the Federal Communications Commission discovered that Georgia's wirehaired, rabble-rousing Representative Gene ("Goober") Cox had received a $2,500 gift of stock from radio station WALB (Atlanta, Ga.), after helping the station get its license from FCC. (By law, Congressmen are forbidden to accept fees for practicing before Government bureaus.) Ever since then, Gene Cox has tried to tear FCC apart...
...persuaded the House to set up a special investigating committee, with himself as head. Fortnight ago Gene Cox ostentatiously published his list of 24 accusations. Among them, that FCC: 1) tried to censor radio broadcasts; 2) used its powers to reward political friends; 3) got funds from Congress by misrepresentation; 4) menaced national security; 5) terrified and enslaved the radio industry...
...weeks ago, Gene Cox began his hearings, hoping for headlines. He set out on a fact-fishing expedition, looking for proof of his charges. He met rebuke and rebuff. Budget Director Harold Smith refused to testify. Navy Secretary Frank Knox, subpoenaed, just skipped the hearing. Franklin Roosevelt ordered that no one talk about a dispute between the Army and FCC. Even FCC's ever loyal opposition, the radio industry, called Gene's charges nonsense. With no facts to go on, Gene's circus folded its tents, went home...
Swart, handsome, curly-haired Gene Krupa, drumming idol of swarms of jitterbugs, paled as a San Francisco jury found him guilty of using a minor (his 20-year-old valet) to transport marijuana cigarets. He had claimed that he was handed an envelope by a stranger, did not know what was in it. As his lawyer prepared to appeal, Krupa prepared to face the music, one to six years in San Quentin...
...takes a lot of pulling. Fats Waller, for example, gave Walker little more than some snatches of melody jotted on the backs of a couple of envelopes. But sometimes apparent trouble is easy to solve. While working on George Abbott's Best Foot Forward, Walker was approached by Gene Kelly, who staged the dances for the show. Kelly had definite ideas. Roared he: "The orchestra should go de-bump-bump-bump, wha-ah, crash, zip, bang, de-bump, de-bump, bzzzz, wham!" It's got to be terrific, an earthquake, a tidal wave, the end of the world...