Word: punditizing
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...Wrote Pundit Mark Sullivan of the New York Herald Tribune: "The zeal of those promoting the plan is evangelical, almost fanatic. The pressure on Congress is much greater than was ever brought by veterans for the bonus. . . . Promoters of the bill say it is supported by 10,000,000 persons over 60,10,000,000 more who have dependents over 60, and 20,000,000 more who expect to become 60 some time -and to whom the plan looks good. That would be about all the voters there...
...Wrote Pundit Walter Lippmann of the New York Herald Tribune: "This sum [for pensions] has to be raised by a general sales tax. Retail sales this year have been about $30,000,000,000. So the Townsend Plan would have meant that for every dollar anyone spent in a store this year he would have had to pay an additional 70? tax. . . . Anyone can figure out for himself the minimum that the Townsend Plan would cost him; he has only to subtract about two-fifths from his expenditures...
...Washington, Dr. Townsend disposed of Pundit Lippmann's argument with ease. "A very careless job of rationalizing," said he. "My plan is too simple to be comprehended mann's." by great minds like Mr. Lipp
...This time Jim Farley's numerous enemies set up a tremendous hullabaloo. The Republican Press burgeoned with sarcastic editorials charging him with deliberately deceiving the nation. Wrote Political Pundit Frank R. Kent in the Baltimore Sun: "In a normal administration no department head would have dared present such a report. He would have known it would be analyzed at once, the joker discovered and the pretense punctured. . . . The truth is Mr. Farley spent $52,000,000 more last year than he took in and his 'surplus' is obtained only by not charging as expenses some $64,000,000. . . . Having performed...
...Russian spinster sisters, who introduce her to a simple-life colony presided over by one Sorrel, gentle U. S. fanatic. Victoria, who takes things as they come, soon makes a place for herself in Sorrel's crazy circus, keeps clear of bickering and intrigues, treats aging Pundit Sorrel like an understanding daughter...