Word: punditing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...columnist colleague on the New York Herald Tribune, Pundit Walter Lippmann, tartly observed that the President's predilection for postponing world political decisions until after the war was the root of the trouble. Officially, the U.S. favors only democratically elected governments in liberated countries. This principle, said Mr. Lippmann, is "an excellent principle [but] totally irrelevant to the real problem" of setting up an interim government until the country is ready to hold elections...
Concluded Pundit Lawrence: "If Governor Dewey is given at all to soliloquy . . . he must inevitably come to the conclusion that he is, indeed, a lucky...
...Aims, by Walter Lippmann, is the popular pundit's realistic appraisal of the weaknesses of U.S. foreign policy (or of its lack of a consistent policy). It advocates U.S. alliance with Britain and Russia and eventually with China...
...health, which are respectively 62 and pretty good (see Presidency). But Dewey could hammer away at Term IV, the prime feature of the Republican case, and the cause of uneasiness in many a Roosevelt voter. He could remind the U.S. that in February 1937 the President had told Pundit Arthur Krock of the New York Times that when 1940 came the U.S. would have a new President; that twice, in 1940, Mr. Roosevelt told the voters that when 1945 came the U.S. would have a new President. The memory of these broken promises echoed again when the President told...
...July convention officially began. The President, closely following the vice-presidential race, had decided to dump both Jimmy Byrnes and Henry Wallace. Worried over the dissension, he allegedly said: "Go on down there and nominate Truman before there's any more trouble. And clear everything with Sidney." Pundit Krock, flatly guaranteeing the truth of the quotation, observed sadly: "Not until the time has come for some of the insiders at the convention to write their memoirs will the true history of the quotation be known...