Word: punditizing
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...liberal little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia scorned the majority recommendation that Frederick Bertrand Robinson should be retained, but with disciplinary powers clipped. When the Board voted further to select a subcommittee to figure how this was to be done, two members, Art Critic Lewis Mumford and Scripps-Howard Financial Pundit John T. Flynn, disgustedly snorted: "Whitewash...
This vexed another pugnacious pundit. Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, 69, who gained fame & fortune as an alienist for the defense of Madcap Harry K. Thaw in 1907 when "brain storm" was first offered as a valid excuse for murder. Commented Psychoanalyst Jelliffe: "Dr. Sachs was talking ex cathedra. It's just a new attempt to spread the old gossip and scandal we've been fighting for 40 or 50 years. They don't like to see us get any fees...
...products verged on quackery, members of the Proprietary Association two years ago organ-ized an "advisory committee on advertising" to censor the commercial announcements of all its members. Hired as censor-in-chief was Edward H. Gardner, onetime professor of Advertising & Marketing at University of Wisconsin, more recently a pundit for J. Walter Thompson Co. During the year, Censor Gardner reported, drug manufacturers submitted $70,000,000 worth of advertising copy for approval. The advertised products ranged from Absorbine Jr. to Zymole Trokeys. A number of newspapers and magazines and the Mutual and Yankee radio networks, boasted the drug business...
...President had hardly set the stage with his Manhattan speech for a campaign debate on economics before another amateur economist, generally friendly to the New Deal, cracked back at his statement that reduction of manufacturing costs means not more purchasing power, but less. Wrote Scripps-Howard Pundit Raymond Clapper...
...observation as tantamount to an accusation that he and his colleagues had been bribed by Republican money, Mr. Lawrence needed only the additional stimulus of the President's off-the-road remarks to the visiting editors to unlimber his guns in retaliation. Last week in 146 newspapers Pundit Lawrence indignantly declared...