Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the meantime, Sammy is going about his business, planting, weeding and mowing, helping his friends with their new problems, worrying that his invalid mother might not be able to bear the strain of either being parted from her family or leaving her home. Nevertheless he is packed and ready...
Out of the confusion and inexperience, the old mistakes, the old near-misses, had risen the President's three men and a team, the men with the power, the managers of the U.S. at war.
This opinion, of competent soldiers on the spot, was based on a compound of good news. The steady flow of American ships carrying troops, planes and all the impedimenta of war continued, so broadly that this week several brands of American cigarets were being issued to troops. Dutch air units...
Who-Me? The most serious confusion was among high-ranking officers in the pier shed: handsome, urbane Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, Commandant of the District (since transferred to command of the Eastern Sea Frontier), the captain of the port, Coast Guard officers, the district material officer. Said the report: "The...
To cure the confusion of agencies within agencies, and agencies without any connections, working enthusiastically at cross-purposes, a new and better agency would be created. On top of the Coordinator of Information, on top of the information section of the Office for Emergency Management, on top of the Rockefeller...