Word: schmo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Congressman or your Senator or to your Governor, not to some schmo." He found the welcome warmest among politicians to whose campaigns he had contributed, and "always supported my friends as I could within my means." A sample of how hard he would work for "one of my very dear friends" came in the Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign of 1952. when Democratic Incumbent Paul A. Dever ("May God rest his soul") was being attacked by the Boston Post. Goldfine's simple effort: he extended a $400,000 line of credit to the paper's owner, capricious Boy Wonder...
...Randall: two better synonyms for "schnook" would be 1) jerk, and 2) schmo...