Word: goobers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alexander, a country schoolteacher, who soon became State School Supervisor. Last autumn "Alex" was also put in charge of WPA Project No. 1744, in which a number of idle girls were employed gathering public school records for the past 15 years. Last month when the anti-Roosevelt Congress of "Goober Democrats" gathered at Macon (TIME, Feb. 10), on each & every seat lay a copy of The Georgia Woman's World, a four-page throw-away devoted largely to photographs of President & Mrs. Roosevelt consorting with Negroes. Promptly the local WTAdministration announced that Brother Alexander Howell had used WPA labor...
...Representative Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Camilla, Ga. opposed giving an "insulter" of Congress like Secretary Ickes anything more...
...gavel from Speaker Byrns's trembling hand, declared some of them out of order, let his colleagues defeat the rest with roars of "No." Then 329 Representatives gave the President his $4,000,000,000 "without strings." Of the 78 Representatives who voted "No" ten were Democrats including "Goober" Cox and four other Georgians, "Father-of-his-Country" Smith and two other Virginians...
...games. In St. Louis last summer, Jerome Dean was such a celebrity that when he was pitching the team's advertisements said: "Dizzy Dean in person." Brother Paul Dean three weeks ago pitched the National League's first no-hit game in five years. A third brother Elmer ("Goober") Dean sold peanuts in St. Louis Sportsman's Park until Mrs. Jerome Dean made him stop because she felt that it lessened the dignity of her husband...
...front of the Cardinals' dugout, wrapping himself in a blanket, pretending to be an Indian. He went on strike last spring when the club refused to raise the salary of Brother Paul, a 21-year-old rookie who joined the team this year. A third brother, Elmer ("Goober") Dean, sold peanuts at St. Louis Sportsman's Park until Mrs. Dizzy Dean made him stop because it detracted from her husband's dignity...