Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...columnist colleague on the New York Herald Tribune, Pundit Walter Lippmann, tartly observed that the President's predilection for postponing world political decisions until after the war was the root of the trouble. Officially, the U.S. favors only democratically elected governments in liberated countries. This principle, said Mr. Lippmann, is "an excellent principle [but] totally irrelevant to the real problem" of setting up an interim government until the country is ready to hold elections...
...Columnist David Lawrence, who wanted a Dewey victory, got to thinking last week what it would have brought. People would be saying, he decided, that as a result of the Administration's defeat, the following things have happened: the war has slowed down and casualties have gone up sharply; disunity has broken out among the Big Three; confusion reigns in Italy; civil war rages in Greece; Congress is feuding with the White House...
...light of her imminent retirement, political pundits began to reappraise the career of this small, plumpish woman who, in her unfashionable tricorn hat, has long bustled in & out of Administration councils. Most surprising opinion came from the Baltimore Sun's bitterly anti-New Deal Columnist Frank Kent. He wrote: "Far from being the worst Secretary of Labor we have had, good argument can be made that Miss Perkins is the best...
...only faults Columnist Kent could find with Miss Perkins were that...
...made occasional silly statements. But what Cabinet officer, he asked, is innocent on these counts? He added: "Unpleasant as it is to say, apparently the basic reason for the long, sustained campaign against her is that she is a woman." Then looking gloomily ahead, as is his custom, Columnist Kent pinned a final decoration on Cabinet Member Perkins: "We could do a lot worse-and probably will...