The Strange Saga of ‘Gobbledygook’

The first known usage of "gobbledygook" to refer to obscure jargon was in a 1944 memo from Maury Maverick. Who was Maury Maverick? Was he even a real person, with that dashing alliterative name and fakey title — Chairman and General Manager of the Smaller War Plants Corporation?
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