Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Few doubted Eleanor Roosevelt's good intentions. And many a citizen thought it likely that James McCauley Landis, OCD's executive director, might be able to straighten out OCD's compound confusion if he were given a free hand-which meant, if Mrs. Roosevelt would step out...
Within half an hour, headquarters handled 190 calls from air-raid wardens who had been told to give their imaginations free play. Only message that caused momentary confusion was the one about the zoo. (No one knew quite what to do about loose wild animals.) A few bottlenecks were uncorked...
The importance of a unified command has been demonstrated positively by the Germans, negatively by the British. While the Nazis have moved their forces into battle under one-man control with a minimum of departmental confusion, the Brit ish have been hindered by all kinds of wasted motion, brought on...
The chief responsibility for the tumult in the Office of Civilian Defense has been blamed on its head, round-bottomed Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, but Eleanor Roosevelt, flitting hither & yon, distributing White House roses among her colleagues' desks, has not notably succeeded in straightening things out. Last fortnight, deciding that...
Died. Arthur E. ("Turkey") Gehrke, 59, famed hibernating tavernkeeper of Waterstown, Wis. "If more folks went to bed all winter," said Gehrke once, "there wouldn't be so much trouble and confusion in the world."