Word: mushmouth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made himself a world figure in three weeks. . . . He has done this by saying a number of simple ordinary things, things which are said at thousands of dinner tables, things which are thought by thousands of minds. Only he has broken with peddlers of cant and dispensers of mushmouth talk to say these things out loud...
Biddle (known in Washington as "Mushmouth," because of his hot-potato accent) then practiced law, served as special assistant U.S. attorney, and in due time, with the backing of New Dealing Philadelphia Publisher Dave Stern, became chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (1934-35). He could hardly have picked a New Deal agency which his neighbors trusted less or hated more...
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