Word: dopesterism
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At first glance, few people would think of Walter Lippmann as a great detective. Courteous, well-read, softspoken, with a vocabulary greater than Sherlock Holmes's (and far more normal habits), he could talk international finance with Morgan partners, politics with Presidents, and seem much more like a reassuring...
At Hyde Park Emil Hurja, the New Deal's No. i election dopester, worked out with Nominee Roosevelt a 5,000-mile campaign trip to cover as many doubtful states as possible. While they huddled over their maps and charts, red-headed Frank Murphy, High Commissioner to the Philippines...
A suggestion by a Washington dopester, a statement by a Massachusetts politician, a radio plug by Walter Winchell and suddenly, two winters ago, it almost seemed as if the Republicans had their Presidential candidate for 1936 (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933).
The whole Thyssen legend trembled. Eminent Groper Johannes Steel, author of The Second World War and dopester on Nazidom for Manhattan's Post, clarioned: "Fritz Thyssen is taking his money out of Germany. Thyssen, Germany's lord and master, has no confidence any more in Germany. . . . The exact...
Early this year in Washington, Emil Hurja and Theodore Huntley began to bet. Mr. Hurja, a prime political dopester in his own right, is Postmaster General Farley's second-in-command at Democratic National headquarters. "Ted" Huntley, a pompous little ex-Washington correspondent with an amazing bass voice, is...