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...Gob Flayed...
...TIME, Oct. 25, the word "Gob" is used as referring to enlisted men in the Navy...
...manufacturers argued that it was no worse to sell chewing gum on shipboard than to sell chewing tobacco, which has always been sold. They argued that a piece of chicle, delicately flavored and injected into the mouth of a gob (except when in ranks) not only was harmless, but promoted efficiency and "good morals." It was Senator McKinley, lame duck from Illinois, who finally prevailed upon the higher officers of the Navy to believe these arguments. At least one of Senator McKinley's constituents (William Wrigley Jr. of Chicago) grinned broadly. He has always been in favor of good morals...
These saber-rattling gentry must have their joke. I suppose Lieutenant Turner would "point with pride" to the Negro gob who was mauled by Italians for tearing up Italian money while he sang: "She smacks me, she smacks me not!" [TIME, April 12, ITALY.] There's a "significant" U.S. sailor...
Comptroller General McCarl last week saved the Government $25 by ruling that a man's lifeblood is no commodity. One gob, Charles A. Smingler, recently contributed liberally from his veins to save by blood transfusion the life of Lieutenant Commander Thomas M. Cochran, ill unto death. The Navy Department issued an order to pay Smingler $25. Mr. McCarl overruled the order, maintaining that Smingler's act was a personal service, "not the sale of a commodity...