Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Painful Exigencies. Stirring around in the chaotic confusion that after six weeks of peace still prevailed throughout unoccupied France, Minister for Youth and Family Jean Ybarnegaray attempted last week to extricate French youth. Aping the Nazis, he organized "Youth Groups," his goal being to build strong Frenchmen by sport, work...
Confusion. If he could answer the people, answer the correspondents, there remained the small but important problem of answering the Democratic National
Convention. National Defense and international affairs kept him in Washington but he was not too busy to follow the Convention day & night by radio. Even in his office he kept a gadget pocket radio open on his desk. When the Convention sank into confusion after its spiritless opening, he talked...
Immigration offices, consulates were unprepared to handle the sudden rush of border migrants. Mrs. Emma R. Anderson, of Windsor, argued hopelessly that she had to get across to Detroit, where she owned a furnished apartment. Only in the most desperate cases were regulations relaxed. Seventy-year-old Mrs. Mary Stables...
Special provisions for cases of exceptional hardship merely added to the confusion. Most of the litigation centred around the complex problem of evaluating "invested capital." Carter Glass, McAdoo's successor, summarized the tax when he recommended its repeal in 1919: "It encourages wasteful expenditure, puts a premium on overcapitalization...