Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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His purpose in running the service, Professor Casner explains, is to provide an over-all picture of opportunities in the armed forces, the government, and civilian defense industries, so that a student to whom "defense" signifies only a complicated and incomprehensible confusion will be able to discover the field to...
Professional pickpockets started the goal post fight after the Dartmouth game last Saturday and then exploited the confusion to filch four or five watches and as many wallets, sleuth Bill Bingham asserted yesterday.
Franklin Roosevelt, sensing that there was some confusion in the labyrinthine operations of his Government, last week decided to clarify everything: he set up a new bureau, the Office of Facts & Figures.
The arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune editorialized: "OFF will coordinate the Office of Coordinator of Information (or OCI), report on the Office of Government Reports (the frequent reference to this as OGRE is just a typographical error), press-agent the innumerable Press Agents of the Individual Departments (often called...
The liberal front, accustomed to a certain amount of inspiration from fellow-travelers, naturally disintegrated after the policies that emanated from the Kremlin between August 1939 and June 1941. However, this confusion must be as brief as possible; liberal pressure requires coordination whether at a peace conference, or in the...