Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Day of the St. Louis crash. Pat McCarran stood up in the Senate and announced the news. "I bring this matter to the attention of the Senate." said he, "in order that they may know that we were right in the first instance when we passed the act creating an...
"Don't Tell." On War Department walls last week appeared a cartoon (see cut p. 16), admonishing employes to hold their tongues. It was old, and it was borrowed from the British, whose public information services are worse than the worst in Washington. It was also symptomatic of wishful...
During the years that immediately preceeded the war there was in the universities a good deal of communist feeling but it was a parlor communism; young men were at college by favor of the capitalistic system and however vehement in debate they were in their attacks on privilege few of...
Last week brought some perfect examples of confusion twice confounded:
The decade which ended in 1920 had seen a war that was to prove inconclusive. It had seen a revolution that was to lie quiescent after establishing itself in the largest country of the world. The decade which ended in 1930 was one of confusion and wasted energy-the wasted...