Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cause for Confusion. No one denied that any industrial stoppage was bad, in the critical spring of 1941, and especially bad when it occurred in a vital centre. Looking for a cure, men looked for causes, tried to sort them out and define them.*
Confounding confusion (and losing labor many a last friend) were two other causes: the rivalry in labor's divided house, resulting in jurisdictional fights between C. I. O. and A. F. of L.; and Communism in C. I. 0.-a vexatious matter, because C. I. O., with its membership...
Disorder in Washington. The outbreak caught the Administration unawares, there by adding unnecessarily to the apparent confusion. Earlier in the week, the new Dykstra Mediation Board (TIME, March 31) had held a brief preliminary meeting, had heard hopeful words from its chair man ("We shall ... try to appeal to the...
Substantial objections, however, are raised to the cafeteria plan. It would tend to destroy Mr. Harkness' concept of a "Dinner table education" as the whole meal process would be speeded up with the result that the dining room would lose much of its social character. Trays on the tables, and...
The air-minded citizen stands in the prop wash of many a muddled controversy. He realizes that the U. S. aircraft industry has grown in three years from a midget employing fewer than the knit underwear trade to the focal point of Bill Knudsen's "terrible urgency" which today...