Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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New Adviser To reduce delay and remove confusion around his own desk, Franklin Roosevelt last week appointed short, stumpy Isador Lubin, 44, head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to tell him what is what among figures. There will be plenty of work for Lubin. Today nearly every visitor to...
This was typical, for although Franklin Roosevelt often creates new agencies to retrieve old failures, he rarely reorganizes those that fail. For two years he had the power for which many a President before him yearned-to reorganize the departments of the Government-but last January, when the Reorganization Act...
Into this tableau of confusion, uncertainty and division struck the House of Representatives last week. They saw the mess and, with unerring Congressional instinct, charged into it. They did so in an attempt to forestall a gradual liquidation of Washington's defense $1-a-yearlings, and their replacement by...
Then, as last week, there was one bottleneck that really counted: the bottleneck at the White House. There was confusion, despair, individual convictions that less than enough had been planned or done. And there were men who looked at the facts, cried that those facts were all-that the war...
> Why does the moral superiority which makes the people of the democracies think of themselves as the children of light, constantly result in doubt, skepticism, confusion, unsureness about objectives, diffusion of effort, widespread paralysis of the will to act, dread of defeat, while the children of totalitarian darkness constantly assert...