Word: goober
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hague's hard-boiled Jersey City school, well knew what was about to happen. For while her New Deal colleague, ancient Adolph Sabath of Illinois, sat at the head of the long billiard-baized table as Rules Chairman, all eyes watched the committee's real overseer, Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Georgia, head hatchet-man of the conservatives...
After a confused, bitter session, "Goober" Cox and his eight stalwarts held off action, countered with the proposition that Mrs. Norton's committee confer the next day with both warring factions of organized labor and representatives of U. S. business in an effort to reach an all-around compromise. Trap-mouthed "Goober" Cox knew as well as Mrs. Norton that nothing but hot words would emanate from such a session. So the nine Congressmen smiled, and Mrs. Norton trudged wearily away to arrange the "conference...
...assistants, these songs give a clearer glimpse of the old-time U. S. than many a ponderous history book. The U. S. soldier of the 1860's sang about his girl (Lorena), his mother (Who Will Care lor Mother Now?), his pesky bumps & bruises (Eating Goober Peas, A Life on the Vicksburg Bluff) as simply, sentimentally and humanly as his grandson did in the World War. Sample (North...
...handsome as a magazine cover, pert in plaid jacket, black skirt and yellow hair-ribbon, chasing down the aisles of the House, talking to distinguished members, having her picture taken, carrying messages. She was Gene Cox, 13, eye-apple youngest daughter of Georgia's cantankerous Representative Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Over the protests of Doorkeeper Joe Sinnott, who feared it would "get into the newspapers" and start a rush by other doting parents to have the same done for their girls, Father Cox had Gene sworn in as his House page, for that one day. She earned...
...just as he had last December when the House brought the original Black-Connery Bill to the floor only to amend it to death and bury it by recommitment, sat the most implacable foe that wages-&-hours legislation has in the House: Georgia's bushy-headed Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Mrs. Norton's revised bill provided a universal floor for wages beginning at 25? an hour, to be stepped up within three years to 40?. It provided a ceiling for the workweek beginning at 44 hours, to be lowered within two years to 40 hours...