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Gerald Nye's henchmen hurriedly tried to pooh-pooh this. But North Dakota is one state in which Tom Dewey needs little added help. Observers agree it is solidly Republican; the latest Gallup poll showed Tom Dewey leading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH DAKOTA: Trouble for Gerald | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

G.O.P. National Chairman Herbert Brownell Jr., friend and choice of Tom Dewey, pooh-poohed the series of incidents. Said he: "Merely a matter of phraseology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speak Low | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...Martinez pooh-poohed. Said he of the school strikes: "No children like going to school." But the military, impressed by the civilian stir, made as if to climb on the bandwagon. Martinez, impressed in turn, granted a partial amnesty. After 44 death sentences and many quiet executions, Salvadorians were not appeased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: No Sanctuary | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

...revolutionary overtones of a strange jumble of free-enterprise socialism, the proposal was calmly received in San Francisco and elsewhere in the U.S. Manhattan's Journal of Commerce merely pooh-poohed it as absurd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give Plants to Warriors | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

Last week Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley, senior U.S. ground-forces commander in Britain, surprised many a newsman and newsreader by publicly pooh-poohing talk of big casualties in connection with the invasion of Europe. Said he, in a speech to U.S. officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: CASUALTY FORECASTS | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

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