Word: claptraps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though its value was lessened by the sensational and politically tinged charges made by Senator Truman in his summary of it to the Senate. The Missourian, perhaps out of his anxiety to get a new $100,000 appropriation to continue his probe, weakened his own work by resorting to claptrap generalizations, even by gross errors-such as an assertion that more than half of U.S. total pursuit-plane production in 1942 would be of mediocre models...
...public test tribunal for youthful dissenters. Questions put included such traditional pacifist posers as "Did not Jesus whip the money-changers out of the temple?" As the nation went, so went Eleanor Roosevelt. Turning on her old friends, the American Youth Congress and the American Newspaper Guild, for their "claptrap" talk decrying the draft, she offered up her four strapping sons, should the country need them-like Cornelia, who had no jewels to give for Rome but her sons, the Gracchi. From Washington came word that Son Elliott, who has a wife and three small children, had obtained a captain...