Word: phogbound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasional pat on the back is a good thing for those of our representatives who are trying to do the right thing, yet there is nothing like a little incisive satire (of which Capp is an accomplished master) for keeping the blatant demagogues under control. Senator Jack S. Phogbound is a type not peculiar to the U.S.A. We are all acquainted with a few Jack S.s, and in some cases a glance in the mirror may reveal the existence of a wholly unsuspected addition to the number...
...censored strips, the Senate needed one vote to defeat a bill to put Congress on the air ("and you know what'll happen to us if the American people can actually hear us!"). The Senate's only hope was hideous, snaggle-toothed Senator Phogbound of Dogpatch, "th' most ignorant commoonity in th' country." Phogbound's price was $2,000,000 to build a Phogbound University, "to be known as P.U." He got the appropriation (argued one Senator: "It isn't as though it were my money-it's just taxpayers' money...
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