Word: poohs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite Mortimer's insistence on the revenge motive, Fellow Columnist Winchell, who also knows a gangster or two, pooh-poohed the claim: "Underworlders can't believe 'any of the Mob' did it-on the grounds that beating up newspapermen 'is hard luck...
...Costello was not the only big shot who pooh-poohed the idea that bookies could be reached by law. The committee heard the same line from St. Louis' bland, bankerish James J. Carroll, the Mr. Big of betting, who announces winter book odds on the Kentucky Derby, and "lays off" (in effect, reinsures) all kinds of bets with gamblers across the nation. When he was asked what a bookie needed to operate, beyond the racing wire, he answered with one word: "Money...
Johnson, who less than a month ago had loftily pooh-poohed Dwight Eisenhower's advice that the nation should spend more for national defense, had now found that U.S. armaments were indeed inadequate in the light of "recent events." (Among the recent events he listed were the fall of China and the Russian bomb, which Louis Johnson might have taken into account months ago, since everybody else...
...Fulton Lewis Jr.; it was the subject of a documentary, neither pro nor con, by CBS's Edward R. Murrow. Columnist Robert Ruark declared that "I believe . . ." Henry Holt announced a "serious" book on flying saucers by Variety's Columnist Frank Scully. The Herald Trib, pooh-poohing the U.S. News article, concluded: "And yet-And yet there is something puzzling about the business...
Charles I. Francis, vice president of Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., pooh-poohed the talk of immediate price rises. Said he: "The public will, benefit by lower gas prices...