Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acutely aware of the U. S. people's yen to do something, somehow, if only somebody would tell them what, is Chief of Staff George C. Marshall. Lately he has been swamped by thousands of letters and phone calls from misguided patriots, each with a breathless suggestion (almost invariably...
Except for the death in the air of the war's most celebrated casualty to date, the Southern Theatre provided little action other than minor border and naval raids. But of confusion, countermand, cross-purposes and capitulation there was dramatic news aplenty.
For confusion, Hellzapoppin had to play second fiddle to what happened 70 miles farther up the Hudson last week. There, off Poughkeepsie-under murky skies and over wind-whipped whitecaps-America's top-notch college crews (except Harvard and Yale) met in the 43rd annual Intercollegiate Regatta.
Probable status of Ford's vast productive capacity: it will stand by until Coordinator Knudsen crystallizes an engineering schedule from the present confusion, gives him a real order for something to make and deliver.
North Carolina's President Frank P. Graham cautioned: "We should not let our fear of the fifth column cause us to surrender to the sixth column, who would mistakenly use the fears of the people and the confusion of the hour to cause Americans to strike down the Bill...