Word: babel
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...statisticians talked in a babel of tongues and it was left to the U.S. housewife to see the truth without words: the U.S. was in for trouble with the most vital of all supplies-food. She knew it from the simple evidence: her grocer's shelves and her butcher's hooks were emptying. Whether she tried, last week, to buy canned baked beans or soups or pork chops or coffee, she found she was getting up against...
When the U.S. went to war it became urgent to keep all Axis propaganda and communication off the air. For the half dozen busy Government agencies-FCC, OFF, FBI, Office of Censorship, Army & Navy Intelligence-which cupped ears to the country's own linguistic babel, the question was: what were these U.S. foreign-language stations telling or hinting to their listeners...
...President's Lap. Amid the Babel of statements, the fine frenzy, Franklin Roosevelt, finally sniffing a Congressional revolt, summoned eleven rationing bigwigs to the White House. After listening, instead of taking a clear-cut stand, he took an easier road, indicated approval of a drive for rubber scrap. Probable "action": a Presidential fireside chat...
America is beset by a confusion of conflicting propagandas, a Babel of voices...
Through the babel of indignation, of cries for laws to outlaw strikes, came one calm voice. The owner of the voice was William Hammatt Davis, vice chairman of the National Defense Mediation Board. He spoke to the House Military Affairs Committee, but his words were for the whole U.S. Said he: "When you pass compulsory legislation you make the workingman a slave, and there is no use producing defense materials for a nation of slaves, because if there is anything certain in history, it is that a national establishment which has to depend on slaves to produce its materials...