Word: goober
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course, I have made the same compliment to other classes, but then I had never seen the class of 1951. You will find the campus cluttered with shacks, tenements, huts and barracks. Where the goober-hangers- are going to find a place I don't know [laughter]. Somehow we will make out. . . . The general level of education . . . must be raised if we are to disappoint the Kremlin with the vigor of our society. . . . You must work hard here, and you must think. That is probably harder work than you have ever done...
...lived in one room, one congressional investigator remarked: "I wonder how long I would live like this before I became a Communist." A colleague cracked: "It wouldn't take two years of it to make Cox a Republican." But no one laughed. Georgia's ultra-reactionary Eugene ("Goober") Cox was so moved that when he got back to the train he gave his sweater, necktie, other odds & ends of clothing and all the chocolate he could buy to a group of Essen's children who had gathered at the train shouting: "Uncle, uncle, chocolate, chocolate...
Fortunately the rumor, like the original report, was an exaggeration. Only a few Americans, including T. F. Bridgers, a North Carolina goober grower who sent a 100-pound sack, had responded with small shipments. Meantime the elephants' trunks were responding nicely to buns and radio therapy...
Even to U.S. citizens long inured to political stinks, the Cox Committee's investigation of the Federal Communications Commission was becoming slightly nauseous last week. When Congress set up the committee to review the functions of FCC, backbiting Gene ("Goober") Cox-then (and still) charged by FCC with accepting an illegal fee from a Georgia broadcasting station-wangled himself the chairmanship. At the first public hearing Chairman Cox promised "an impartial and wholly constructive" investigation...
...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...