Word: goober
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently spruced-up town in central Georgia's lush, goober-growing country, Plains had been without a physician since 1951, when Dr. Colquitt Logan virtually retired at 71 after having two operations for cataracts. Like 50-odd Georgia towns (and 1,450 now on record in the U.S.) listed as wanting a doctor, Plains might have gone doctorless for a long time...
Human nature is not black and white, but black and grey." Died. Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox, 72, longtime (since 1925) Georgia member of the House of Representatives and second in seniority on the House Rules Committee; of a heart ailment; in the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md. Shrewd, rabble-rousing Congressman Cox was convinced that the world is divided between white supremacists and potential Communists. He spent most of his career as art outspoken foe of the New Deal, the Fair Deal, labor leaders, foreigners and Negroes, and once blasted an anti-poll-tax bill as an "expression of venomous...
...months, almost singlehanded, Georgia's hot-eyed Gene Cox had done his best to keep the U.S. from sending grain to famine-threatened India. The President had asked for it, the Senate had passed the bill, but "Goober" Cox had tied things in committee, where he thrashed around with the bill like a mongoose fighting a cobra. Last week, when the bill finally reached the House floor, Goober rose for a last convulsive spring. His intent: to keep it from even being debated...
...subject that Goober Cox hated to be bothered about, or to bother anyone else about, was the possibility of several million people starving to death in India. For seven weeks, Gene Cox and his little clique had smothered the relief bill in committee. But now church groups across the nation were demanding action. So were many people who saw no reason why Communist China, with famine on its own hands, should harvest a psychological victory by supplying India with grain, while the U.S., which has a wheat surplus, was denying it to a nation in need. Speaker of the House...
...committee debate next morning raged loud & long. Goober Cox, after two hours of haranguing his committee ("A vote for this bill," he snorted, "is a vote of confidence in Acheson"), was surprised and disgruntled to find himself almost alone in opposition. He didn't even bother to vote and the bill was reported...