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Word: blabbering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blubber & Blabber. Langley was duly elected, and soon confided to Elkins-testified Elkins-that he was going to split the gambling payoff with Gambler Maloney. But Maloney turned out to be a first-class bungler and, said Elkins, the Teamsters sent in another man to help with the Portland racketeering. He was Seattle Gambler Joseph Patrick McLaughlin, alias Joe McKinley. The difference between Gamblers Tom Maloney and Joe McLaughlin was explained to Elkins by none other than the Teamsters' Frank Brewster. Testified Elkins: Brewster once said that " 'Tom Maloney is a blubberheaded, blabbermouthed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Terrifying Teamsters | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...article on Mr. Jenner was most enlightening. Please keep informing us of the blabber-mouthing of those who would seek our votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 19, 1956 | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

Bramblett put his wife, Lois, On the Government payroll as a $4,700-a-year secretary because, he explained. "You don't know who can be entrusted with confidential data." Another secretary might blabber to Communists, he feared. Critics in California charged nepotism. They doubted that Bramblett, as a member of the House Agriculture Committee, handled state secrets. Worried about this political sniping, Bramblett discussed his problem with House Republican Clerk Irving Swanson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Kickback | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...matter with a college where you could hardly discuss last Saturday's football game without being considered a traitor to the American Way of Life. All you could hear in the dining hall was Eisenhower-Stevenson, Nixon-Sparkman, Bundy-Schlesinger until you were sick of it. Besides, half the blabber, months weren't old enough to vote anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/17/1952 | See Source »

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