Word: beclouded
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...domestic problems exist and must be solved, but occupied Germany is not the place to consider them, and such discussions simply becloud the issue of German war guilt. To borrow a twist from the world heavyweight champion, T Sgt. Joe Louis, a G.I. who isn't tongue-tied at critical moments: "There ain't nothing wrong with us that Mr. Hitler...
...rolls up a majority of more than 100,000 in Hague's Hudson County-enough to insure the Boss' Statewide rule. Informed that Edison was already taking the field for a series of speeches, Hague tossed a grenade toward the State capitol: "He is thus attempting to becloud the issue. ... I am, therefore, handing over the State leadership of the Democratic Party to Governor Edison." By then he had hooked off to Arizona with Mrs. Hague, who, he said, was ailing...
...fact, the absence of any definite link between President Vargas and the Integralista, or Brazilian Fascist Party, and the very fact that news dispatches declaring the new regime to be totalitarian are not censored, reenforce the impression that the Fascist scare is simply a clever smoke screen used to becloud the ruling party's real objective--continuation in office...
...foolish plan [is] a real danger to the established neutrality policy of this nation. The unfortunate war victims . . . might easily be used for propaganda purposes by groups actively seeking sympathy for the Communist-Socialist regime of the Madrid-Valencia government. This crafty scheme is clearly an attempt to becloud an issue the truth of which Americans are at last learning, namely, that the Soviet-supported 'Loyalist' regime, in order to deceive the world of its real anti-Christian objective, is trying to make out that Franco's government is anti-Catholic because the Rebels are seeking...
...things becloud the future of these companies: 1) sales resistance to machine-made homes, 2) opposition from organized labor. The powerful building trades' unions glower darkly at houses that can be put up with fewer plasterers, carpenters, roofers, painters and plumbers. Probable result: prefabricated houses will be pushed and developed from outside the building trades by big electrical corporations, plumbing, steel, cement, and wallboard companies who see a fat, new market for their wares...