Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On the first day, after a disorderly, hot-tempered session, the delegates voted nearly 2-to-1 against a flat repeal of the no-strike pledge. Next morning they voted the other way (against reaffirming the pledge), by a closer tally, 5,232-to-4,988. In complete confusion, the...
Monty got new honors the same day: the rank of Field Marshal, conferred by King George VI. The award set up a new cacophony of confusion: did Monty's crown and laurel wreath outrank Ike
*Not to be confused (though he often is) with General Motors' Charles E. (for Erwin) Wilson, who became, respectively, vice president, executive vice president and president of G.M. at almost the same time as Charles E. (for Edward) Wilson won similar posts at G.E. When Charles Edward Wilson moved...
Government by Confusion. Biddle, and his Assistant Attorney General, stocky Wendell Berge (rhymes with serge) had long been planning an attack on the railroads. Over a year ago they swarmed into action when a Justice Department investigator quite casually discovered the trail of a "Western Agreement" among the railroads. The...
As comedy, I Love a Soldier suffers from a confusion of values, which is likely to outrage rather than amuse most moviegoers. Barry Fitzgerald contributes a brief but telling bit as a richly impertinent, elfish little cable-car gripman (conductor). But despite his efforts, this idyll of young love resembles...