Word: punditizing
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...Pundit Walter Lippmann opined: "I should have no doubt myself that the President's offer is sincere. For while he and certain of his supporters might feel at a loss during election time if they did not have the utilities for a scapegoat, Mr. Roosevelt's offer is in entire accord with his most practical political necessities. Thus, although he does not need political peace with the utilities, he very urgently needs an economic peace...
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Faye Lippmann; from Pundit Walter Lippmann; charging extreme cruelty; in Bradenton, Fla. Said Mrs. Lippmann's petition: "Lippmann is shrewd and quick in his mental processes, commands a vocabulary practically unlimited, is a facile veteran in the use of invective and development of criticism, a phase of his equipment that he constantly uses in administering verbal punishment on complainant...
...course in three years, spent his fourth year as assistant to Philosopher George Santayana. William James thought him a bright boy. But it was a British social philosopher visiting at Harvard, Graham Wallas (author of The Great Society which in title at least was the obvious forerunner of Pundit Lippmann's latest book) who really fired Lippmann's imagination, gave his sprouting career its direction. When Lincoln Steffens, the late great muckraker, went looking in Harvard Yard for "the ablest mind that could express itself in writing," Lippmann, by almost unanimous recommendation, got the job of Steffens...
Meanwhile, Guild members were boring from within. Pundit Walter Lippmann, New York Herald Tribune columnist, wrote a letter to the Guild refusing to pay his dues because he would not commit himself to political opinions adopted by them. New York Guild Secretary Milton Kaufman attempted to straighten him out with the assurance that "individual members of the Guild are no more committed to resolutions of this character than are editorial employes of the Herald Tribune committed to the editorial policy" of that paper. In Seattle 40 Guild members on the Post-Intelligencer, whose publisher is President Roosevelt...
Queens. Scheduled to open in September for 400 students is co-educational Queens College, the fourth of New York City's teeming municipal centres of higher learning: City College, Hunter College, Brooklyn College. Last fortnight Scripps-Howard's liberal Financial Pundit John Thomas Flynn, as chairman of a committee of the Board of Higher Education to get Queens College started, announced that his committee had picked a president. He was round-faced, Rumanian born Dr. Paul Klapper, 51, dean of the School of Education at City College. President-elect Klapper's salary will be raised from...