Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The OPM was sired by Franklin Roosevelt out of confusion, which was the stable-name of the NDAC. The President had been greatly responsible for the confusion, although some of it was inherent in the size of the task and the nature of the problem. NDAC was a six-man...
NDAC foundered in a wave of its own contradictory press releases. Despite the Commission, the program had gone astoundingly well. But the NDAC sank in a maelstrom of confusion, with enough flotsam left floating to remind Washington oldsters of the wreck of the NRA.
Distressed by this confusion, Chairman May promised to see national draft officials, try to get more specific rules for deferments. So far the national draft administration has made none, still holds hard for local interpretation. Eleanor Roosevelt put in her word, said that what the draft administration needed was a...
The loudspeakers of Congress must be heard no matter how inane, bromidic and repetitious their statements are. For example, the whole country knows how Senator Blank feels and where he stands; it and his colleagues have heard him ad lib and ad nauseam and yet he takes up time, creates...
Last week the Gallup Poll (which had previously shown that President Roosevelt had the support of an unprecedented 71% of the electorate) showed in preliminary figures that only 54% endorsed the Lend-Lease Bill, most of them with modifications. The discrepancy was significant. To Pundit Walter Lippmann opposition to the...