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...vain foes of the amendment argued that it would open the House to the charge of playing politics with defense, that no one would be drafted until after Election Day anyway. When Georgia's Edward Eugene ("Goober'') Cox exclaimed of the amendment: "To accept it would convince the people of this country that the membership of this House is only an aggregation of self-serving politicians," its fate in a House of 435 politicians was sealed. The amendment was adopted 185-to-155. More notable to many a Representative was the sight of Republican National Chairman...
Wildest man was hot-eyed Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Camilla, Ga., Tory hatchetman who dominates the House Rules Committee. Mr. Cox felt the fury that comes only to those who outsmart themselves. Intent on sabotaging the act, he rammed to the floor three sets of amendments sponsored by Graham Barden of New Bern, N. C., which would have exempted from the law practically all workers engaged in handling agricultural products-a prospect greatly pleasing to the strawberry producers and other farmers in Mr. Barden's district...
...House Labor Committee, buxom Mrs. Norton snapped that it would have been "much more honest" of the Smith committee to propose outright repeal of the Wagner Act. Fearing that Mrs. Norton, in motherly fashion, would simply sit on the bill, Smith's chum, combustious Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Georgia laid plans to force the bill out of Mrs. Norton's committee as soon as possible...
...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...