Word: punditing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pundit Lippmann overlooked the impetus of one episode on Roosevelt's life, because few talked aloud about the crippling paralysis that came in 1921 and Roosevelt's courageous comeback...
...points had previously been elaborated by Vandenberg on the floor of the Senate. He will insist that all decisions made during the war (Poland, Greece, Rumania, Yugoslavia, etc.) be re-viewed at the final peace conference. This proposal may have provoked W.W.C.'s outcry about imperialism. Pundit Walter Lippmann, frankly in favor of spheres of influence, cried that Senator Vandenberg's suggestion would cause "endless confusion." But Harold Stassen, internationalist, has also insisted that any world organization should include provision for peaceful change as it is needed...
...poor U.S. economic pundit who has not his own estimate of what the postwar national income and employment rate should be for prosperity...
...Second Day. To Arthur Krock, the New York Times's Washington pundit, the day before the showdown was "the night before somebody's Waterloo." And it was clear between the lines that Arthur Krock thought, and hoped, that the Waterloo would be Henry Wallace's. There was some reason for his belief. Anti-Wallacemen, like North Carolina's upright Josiah Bailey, seemed in complete control. Senator Barkley and Vice President Truman went humbly to Joe Bailey, pleaded with him for an hour to relent. "Holy Joe" Bailey would...
...whom could scarcely believe their ears, were amazed and, generally, pleased. U.S. press reaction was also favorable-save for the grumpily isolationist New York Daily News, which thought that the Senator had delivered a mortal blow to the Republican Party; the Daily News demanded a new "nationalist" (isolationist) party. Pundit Walter Lippmann thought it one of the few speeches likely to "affect the course of events." John Foster Dulles, internationalist lawyer and Thomas E. Dewey's foreign policy adviser, praised the speech for divorcing the problem of controlling the Axis from the larger problem of keeping the peace...