Word: goober
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Georgia's Dixiecrat Gene ("Goober") Cox was in a black and angry mood. "I am sorry to bother you," he wrote last week to ten fellow members of the House Rules Committee, "but at the insistence of the Speaker, I have called a meeting of the Rules Committee for tomorrow morning at 10:30 to give consideration . . . [to] the wheat bill for India...
Eight weeks after President Truman's request that 2,000,000 long tons of surplus U.S. grains be sent to India's relief, Congress still hemmed, hawed and stalled. Georgia's Dixiecrat Gene ("Goober") Cox and Ohio's Republican Clarence Brown sat on the bill in the House Rules Committee...
...victory not so much for either party as for democracy. Grumbled Goober Cox: "The trouble was that there were too many featherlegs on hand today...
...Goober" Cox counted on plenty of company: his fellow Dixiecrats, who wanted to bottle up Harry Truman's civil rights program ; Republicans who wanted to smother the Fair Deal; everyone who wanted to whack Government spending without having to take the rap for voting against popular expenditures...
Leaving his seat on the Speaker's dais, Texas' Sam Rayburn stepped down on the floor for one of his infrequent speeches. "Who won the election in 1948 anyhow?" he demanded. Actually, shrewd Sam Rayburn was in a bit of a spot himself. If Goober Cox failed, the FEPC bill might be called up, which wouldn't help Sam Rayburn in his Texas constituency. Under the present rules, any committee chairman can bring his bill to the floor after the Rules Committee has sat on it for 21 days...