Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In a way, he was selling his party more than himself, and he undertook to define the differences between Republicans and Democrats in great detail. Taft defined the Republican Party as the party which can handle foreign affairs with realism, reduce Government controls, lower taxes, encourage business enterprise, keep labor...
It took a special detachment of cops to get Taft and his wife through this milling throng and he was booed lustily during the momentary confusion which resulted. Taft announced-and probably correctly-that such picketing was helping his cause immensely.
In the confusion, Weld indicated, no elections were even held for the offices of secretary and treasurer.
"Dare to be yourself," wrote Andre Gide in his diary at 22. "My mind is becoming voluptuously impious and pagan. I must stress that tendency." If he felt like a pagan, he still acted like a Protestant; he carried a pocket Bible everywhere with him. But he was always seesawing...
When the station sends out its first program of the year this evening at 7:30 o'clock from its Dudley hall studio, it will be operating under the same management but under a new name. Last spring the board rang out the name Harvard Crimson Network (WHON) and rang...